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CLASS OF 1903 

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DOUGLAS C. McMURTRIE 

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CONTENTS 

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Contents 5 

Introduction 11 

The 1903 Decennial Reunion 13 

1903 College 21 

Clinton G. Abbott ......... 23 

A. E. Adams 24 

Frederic J. Agate 25 

Theodore H. Allen 26 

William F. Allen 27 

Martin Charles Ansorge 28 

David Asch 29 

Daniel R. Bacon 30 

George Frederick Bambach .... 32 

N. W. Barnes 34 

Robert B. Bartholomew 38 

John G. Bates 39 

Alexander O. Bechert 40 

Henry R. Beekman 41 

DlNO BlGONGIARI 42 

M. I. Blank 43 

Frank Tefft Bogue 44 

Yeoman Briggs , 45 

Herbert Brinckerhoff 47 

B. F. Butler 48 

Hamilton Butler 49 

Louis Casamajor 51 

William P. Comstock 52 

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John Whiting Crowell 53 

M. Hartley Dodge 55 

Pendleton Dudley 56 

Harry Dyrsen 58 

Victor M. Earle 59 

Arthur F. Egner 60 

Henry Hart Elias 61 

Colin Fink 62 

Jay Irving Fort 65 

Walter Frank 66 

Leonhard Felix Fuld 67 

Crosby Gaige 68 

Enos Throop Geer 71 

E. A. Goldenweiser 73 

Hamilton A. Gordon 74 

Herbert J. Haas 75 

Richard C. Harrison 77 

C. Leroy Hendrickson 78 

Henry K. Heyman 80 

William F. Hills 81 

Alfred Hoffman 82 

Russell P. Hoyt 83 

Stanley M. Isaacs 84 

Lewis Iselin 85 

M. L. Jenks 86 

Ely J. Kahn 90 

Howard Allan Keeler 91 

Charles W. Kennedy 92 

Barent Lefferts 93 

Herbert S. Loveman 94 

Harold C. McCollom 95 

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Herbert D. Mandelbaum 96 

Frederick S. McLintock 97 

Roi Cooper Megrue 98 

J. Garfield Moses 100 

Hopper Lenox Mott 101 

Herbert R. Odell 102 

L. S. Odell 103 

Gerald S. O'Loughlin 104 

T. Lockwood Perry 105 

Edgar Pitske 106 

Bernard H. Ridder 107 

Lawrason Riggs, Jr 108 

William Rossbach 109 

Charles E. T. Scharps no 

Arnold O. Schramm . in 

Robert Schulman 113 

Robert Livingston Schuyler . . . . 114 

Frederick Cromwell Seaman . . . . 115 

Ralph L. Shainwald, Jr 116 

Jerome B. Shoenfeld 118 

Walter S. Spiegelberg 119 

Harry W. Stanley . . . . . . . . 120 

Arthur L. Strasser .121 

H. R. Steeves 122 

George A. K. Sutton 123 

John A. Swenson 124 

Warner Taylor 125 

Samuel A. Telsey 126 

W. F. Thoman 128 

Henry Clark Townsend, Jr 129 

Lloyd Brant Thomas 130 

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William F. Turnbull 133 

B. R. von Sholly 135 

R. H. Waddell 136 

Leonard M. Wallstein 137 

F. Lyman Wells 138 

Leonidas Wester velt 139 

Edwin Wolff 140 

Albert Wortmann . 141 

Harold H. Weekes 142 

C. J. Wyckoff 143 

1903 Science 144 

Herbert Abraham 146 

Henry W. Aplington 147 

William S. Baldwin '. 148 

Harry Brewster Barling 149 

William Herman Beers 150 

Albin H. Beyer .151 

L. C. Bigelow 152 

Alonzo B. Bradley 157 

F. A. Busse 159 

Shiras Campbell 160 

F. B. Clark 161 

Allan Coggeshall 163 

Everitt M. Cooper 164 

Irwin H. Cornell 165 

George A. Crocker, Jr 167 

Maclolm Curry 169 

Charles H. Dempwolf 173 

Lester F. Dittenhoefer 174 

William A. D. Evans 175 

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S. H. Everett, Jr 176 

John Faber . 177 

Walter H. Ford 178 

Eugene Frank 179 

Herbert S. Glasby 180 

F. F. Grevatt 183 

SVERRE GULBRANDSEN 1 84 

C. Godfrey Gunther . 185 

Raymond Guyer 186 

Paul H. Harwood 187 

William H. Hendrickson 188 

Louis G. Henes 189 

Henri P. L. Hoguet 193 

Charles A. Holden 195 

A. B. Hull 197 

Henry E. Jacoby 198 

Edward K. Judd . 199 

J. Blake Kellogg 201 

Frederick Kenney 202 

W. H. Landers 203 

Boris Levitt 204 

Ogden W. Lillard 207 

Elwood H. Loder 208 

W. S. McDowell 209 

Cyril B. McLaughlin 210 

C. W. MacDougall .211 

Franklin Martin 212 

D. W. Menocal 214 

Gail Mersereau 215 

J. Leo Murphy 217 

Harold S. Osborne 219 

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Charles W. Ostrom 221 

Montague Palmer 224 

S. J. Pigott 226 

Charles W. Pond 229 

Howard Richards, Jr 230 

Myron W. Robinson 231 

Burril Rusky 232 

Ph. C. Sanguinetti 233 

Edward L. Sayers 235 

S. F. Shaw 236 

Julian C. Smallwood 239 

R. W. Smith 241 

Shepherd Stevens 242 

Mason A. Stone, Jr . . . 244 

John F. Thompson 245 

William H. Wallace, Jr 246 

A. M. Warff 247 

Louis S. Weeks 248 

F. W. Wichman 249 

John Wynkoop 251 



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PREFACE 

f I^HIS volume might be called a by-product of the 
A work performed by two class committees. 

In the fall of 191 1 the class of 1903 Columbia, College 
and Science, appointed committees to arrange for the 
Decennial Reunion. 

For College the following were chosen: C. G. Abbott, 
T. H. Allen, H. R. Beekman, V. M. Earle, H. H. Elias, 
F. V. Goodman, Barent Lefferts, B. H. Ridder, H. R. 
Steeves, and H. C. Townsend. For Science the members 
were: A. B. Bradley, Leclanche Moen, F. B. Clark, 
J. L. Murphy, G. P. Cutter, L. C. Biglow, W. A. D. 
Evans, G. A. Crocker, Jr., H. E. Jacoby, Allen Cogges- 
hall, and I. H. Cornell. 

The successful reunion at 191 2 Commencement and 
the big events at the Decennial Reunion in 191 3 attest 
the excellence of the work accomplished by these com- 
mittees. 

In the course of their labors they gathered a mis- 
cellaneous mass of data concerning the men of 1903. 
This material was classified and supplemented with 
additional matter gathered from time to time through 
correspondence. It is now to be published for the 
benefit of the class. 

The volume is incomplete in some respects but with 
all its defects it is an interesting document. 

It was thought best to arrange the book in two sec- 
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Science. The reader will be struck with the different 
character of the two sections. This is owing to the fact 
that College men were requested to send an informal 
account of their activities, whereas Science men were 
asked to reply to a definite list of questions. Each 
division "runs true to form, " the moralist would remark. 



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THE 1903 DECENNIAL REUNION 

A ND this is the story of the Decennial Reunion of 
-^^1903. "Commencement Day dawned bright and 
clear" — so the Poet of the Day said; and no one felt 
disposed to quarrel with him, though it was very hazy 
and very sultry, and rain threatened to fall at any 
moment. One member of the class actually attended 
the Commencement exercises in the Gym; but he was 
one with an ancient hankering for things academic, and 
he didn't count. The rest of the class was on South 
Field while degrees were being handed out, working on 
an old grudge with 1902. 

The challenge issued to 1902 for an old-fashioned 
baseball rough-house promised a good time, but unfortu- 
nately 1902 failed to appear. 

Frank Goodman and Herbert McLintock then selected 
sides and some big league stuff was sprung on South Field. 
Scouts from the National and American Leagues filled 
the stands and trades for the services of Cornell and 
Schuyler were soon under way. 

The game itself ranks with some of the greatest in 
the annals of baseball. Some considered it even ranker. 
Howard Keeler acted as umpire, and so impartial was 
his work that the score at the end of each inning was a 
tie. Ground rules were established, which placed the 
game in a class by itself. A strike was any pitched ball 
thrown within a radius of six paces of the home plate. 
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than thirty feet. When more than sixteen bases on balls 
were given in any one inning the side was considered 
out. The game was played according to the latest rules 
of pool — ten or no count. 

In sliding to second base Weekes was cautioned against 
biting the umpire. The batting of Wolf and the base 
running of Schuyler were easily the features of the game. 

The form shown by the fattest man in the class was 
the greatest on the field. The umpire went through the 
frightful ordeal in splendid style. While there was 
much about the rules of baseball that he did not under- 
stand, there was nothing that he could not explain. 
There was absolutely no disagreement between umpire 
and players — except in opinion. After the game the 
verdict was general that at last Columbia had regained 
her prestige on the diamond. 

Adjournment was made to the Alumni Lunch 
advertised to sit in the Commons at noon; 1903 was 
100 strong, more than filling the centre table, which 
stretched from end to end of the hall. Everybody 
seemed self-possessed and dignified, but as time passed 
spirits awakened, and under the leadership of Jerry 
O'Loughlin noise began to work its inspiration. There 
were cheers for '63 and '88, for Butler, for John Bassett 
Moore, who is to retire to leisure at Washington during 
the coming year, for old Van Am., who unhappily was 
not there to hear, and also for that once scored host, 
the class of 1902. Our stay here was limited by the 
quantity of eatables in sight; for we had work to do 
that afternoon. So when the debris of the luncheon 
had been cleared away, we arose as one man to depart 
— not that we loved the speakers less, but that for this 
particular day we owed more to ourselves as a class. 

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Then to the Gemot. From mysterious bundles came 
out bits of drab suiting, extraordinary sombreros, well 
smeared with color, bunches of black side-whiskers, 
scarlet sashes; enough, in a word, to convert a band of 
respectable and dignified New Yorkers into a mob of 
cut-throat greasers of the most shockingly revolutionary 
appearance. There was not much variety in the crowd, 
save for the stunning "Matador" get-up of Osborne, 
and the charming disguises of the girls — Cooper, Barn- 
bach, and Pitske. The girls "were all there," Cooper, 
the star, contributing something in the neighborhood of 
two hundred and fifty pounds to the show, and com- 
fortably inhaling a villainous black cigar while the pro- 
cession was moving. 

But before the classes lined up for the parade, 1903 
took to the steps before Hamilton Hall long enough to 
have its picture taken — in full regalia. This over, the 
march began; and a good one it was: there were sailors 
with the sea-gait, Japs with mincing steps, Dutch youths, 
flaxen-haired, clattering along in wooden shoes, and one 
howling mob of desperate pirates; 1903 started off the 
show with a bull-fight. The bull was a "perfesh," and 
altogether a very animated animal. He died game — 
at the sword of the gallant matador — after having lifted 
some half a hundred picadors and other venturous 
amateurs out of the ring. The shows of the other classes 
were all head-liners, 1907 carrying off the pennant with 
a vigorous, but rather unprophetic, representation of 
this year's Poughkeepsie regatta. 

After the dust of the ring and the smoke of a bloody 
naval encounter and the flying spray of I907's boat 
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Penn-Columbia baseball game was properly managed. 
Sad to relate, our attention lagged in the third inning, and 
before we had discovered what was happening Pennsy 
had three runs over the plate. That was enough ! But 
for all that, Smith is a great pitcher, and another year 
of experience should make him a phenomenal twirler 
for a college team. 

There was little time, however, to grieve over a de- 
feat; before the ball game was over we were getting 
ready for the next number on our program. At six 
o'clock we started for the river, marching in a body to 
the barge on the Hudson which was waiting to take us 
out for what was, incongruously enough, called a shore 
dinner. For all its name, it was extremely good from 
first to last. Ansorge enlivened things with a number 
of happy presentations; Herbert Odell came in for a 
book of instructions on the care and feeding of infants — 
for the junior members of his family now number five. 
Jerry O'Loughlin got a little hair-restorer, with the 
customary guarantee. Louis Odell, who still clings to 
a residence in picturesque Brooklyn, carried off a sub- 
way ticket. The Martyr's Club was remembered, along 
with Ollie Cooper, the class's fattest, Snap Evans, 
Herbert Loveman, and Julian Small wood. Currie drew 
the real prize of the evening — a handsome bag — for 
coming all the way from Minnesota to be in at our 
killing; and Marcy Dodge, whose solicitude for the 
fortunes of the class is as keen as when he trotted about 
the campus daily, was given a deposit of one round 
dollar in the Union Dime Savings Bank, in anticipation 
of a homeless and resourceless old age. Last was an 
impressive presentation of a stunning cup — if we do 

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say it ourselves, who shouldn't — to Bernie Ridder, 
who has put in not only his spare time throughout the 
past year, but much time that he should not have spared, 
in order to make the Decennial a go. 

And thereby hangs a tale. After the boat had reached 
In wood and headed down-stream, and the crowd had 
settled down to turkey- trotting and less quiet amuse- 
ments, it was discovered that the loving-cup had taken 
wings. The boat was stopped in mid-stream and an 
inquisition instituted. For twenty minutes the deck 
hands busied themselves with pleas of not guilty; but 
after a busy search a joyful shout went up. Someone 
had picked up the trophy in the locker of one of the 
life-boats. The barge was run in to the dock, the torch- 
light procession started up Morningside Hill, and we 
were ready for the next chapter. 

We reached the Campus at half-past eight: half an 
hour later than our schedule, to be sure, but actually 
in time for the first of the evening's performance. Prob- 
ably Russ Hoyt had something in his mind when he 
insisted that we should be back on the dot. His show 
was unquestionably the very best ever. How many 
grads filled up the Library steps, and how many in- 
terested and fair faces looked up from the benches in 
the lower court we leave to the statistician ; the number 
has been estimated at between fifty thousand and a 
million — but if the numbers have been boosted a bit 
at any rate there was no doubt about the quality of the 
show. Everybody was in it, of course: the singing was 
never better; and in between Do Ye Ken Van Am? 
Amid, and the Medley, came the best that the Glee Club 
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including Harrington, Doc Hall, and Vincent Sullivan. 
The most taking thing of the evening was probably I907's 
little show, Dark Days in Dahomey, which went with 
a rush and a roar. 

But the evening had to end: with Sans Souci there 
was a general hand-shake, a farewell, and a promise 
to be back next year; and in a body at our next big 
celebration — fifteen years hence. But to those of us 
who felt on this occasion how really youthful we still 
are, after all, it did not seem that even at our Twenty- 
Fifth Reunion we should be far removed from the ex- 
periences and memories of undergraduate days. 



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New York, May 10, 1912. 

IMMEDIATELY after graduation I entered the office 
•*■ of Dickerson, Van Dusen and Company, tinplate 
and metal merchants, of 32 Cliff Street, New York, 
with whom I have remained ever since. On May 1, 
1 910, I was admitted to partnership in the firm. 

Outside of business, much of my spare time has been 
devoted to the affairs of the West Side Young Men's 
Christian Association, of which I am a director. For 
four years I have been chairman of the Committee on 
Boys' Work. 

In the way of a "hobby," I have always been keenly 
interested in the study of bird-life, especially in the con- 
servation of our wild birds. In this connection I am an 
advisory director of the National Association of Audubon 
Societies, and vice-president of the Linnaean Society of 
New York. I lecture for the Board of Education, and 
elsewhere, also write articles on the subject of birds. 
In 191 1 I was the author of a book entitled The Home 
Life of the Osprey, published by Witherby and Company, 
of London, England. 

Columbia has had her share of my time and I have 
served on the Standing Committee of the Alumni Associa- 
tion, as well as on a number of minor committees of the 
college and club. 

I am not married. 

Clinton G. Abbott. 

DICKERSON, VAN DUSEN & CO. 
32 CLIFF STREET 

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A FTER graduating in 1903 I worked for the New 
***- York and New Jersey Telephone Company at 
Brooklyn in the Traffic Department, operating end, and 
had supervision of several of the exchanges. I worked 
there about two years and then came to the American 
Surety Company. I worked at their Home Office, 100 
Broadway, for something over a year and then was 
transferred to Minneapolis as Assistant Manager of 
their branch office at that place and about two years ago 
was promoted to Manager, which position I hold at the 
present time, and I also have supervision of Minnesota, 
North and South Dakota. 

I am "much" married, in that I have a wife and three 
children, boy seven years, girl three, baby twenty 
months. 

A. E. Adams. 

338 MCKNIGHT BUILDING 
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. 



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April 17, 1 913. 

A FTER graduating from Columbia in 1903 I attended 
-*** Columbia Law School for one year and New York 
Law School for one year and was admitted to the Bar 
in June, 1905. Since then I have been in the office of 
Mr. Eugene Smith, 49 Wall Street. I was married in 
1905 and have one son, born December 23, 1909. 

Frederic J. Agate. 

49 WALL STREET 



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April 10, IQ12. 

TV/TY RECORD since Commencement 1903: 

1 903-1 907. Study of medicine at P. and S. 
1907-1909. Interneship at St. Luke's Hospital, New York 
City. 

1909. Trip to Brazil, South America, as shipsurgeon on 

German steamer. 
Interneship at Sloane Maternity Hospital, New 

York City. 
Study in medic clinics and Summer course in 

Berlin. 

1910. Practice of medicine in New York City. 
Married Miss Anna Strickland. 

191 1. Advent of a little girl, now nine months old. 

Theodore H. Allen. 

3905 BROADWAY 
NEW YORK CITY 



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New York, April 30, 1913. 

TV/TY time since graduation has been spent, two years 
**•**■ of it at Columbia Law School, the rest in prac- 
tising law. 

In 1 9 10 I became a member of the firm of Everett, 
Clarke, Benedict & Ward, and in 191 1 a member of 
Everett, Clarke & Benedict. 

In September, 191 1, Miss Georgiana Beecher became 
Mrs. William F. Allen. Miss Allen is now probably the 
most important person in our family. 

William F. Allen. 

EVERETT, CLARKE & BENEDICT 

COUNSELLORS AT LAW AND 
PROCTORS IN ADMIRALITY 

37 WALL STREET 



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May 20, 1 013. 

A PERFECTLY decent autobiography is a deliberate 
***• attempt to stifle the truth. It is a juggle with 
veracity. Ergo, I have hesitated between chaos and 
cosmos. 

But why permit one's light to flicker under a bushel? 
Tho' modesty may be my missing virtue, perhaps 
brevity will conceal the fault. 

I studied law after graduation. In 191 2, I was the 
Republican nominee for United States Congress from 
the 2 1st New York, opposed to Henry George, Demo- 
crat. I was about to stifle the fact that I was not elected. 
It was a close district, and the advent of a Progressive 
Party candidate, divided the Republican vote. 

To reminisce of law school days, I was a member of 
the Varsity Track Team, and was President of Columbia 
University Republican Club and minor societies. I 
organized a Law School football team and brought out 
Talbot and Finnegan for the Varsity. 

As a lawyer, I have met with success. I needn't 
prove it, I admit it. The " grinds" in college are not 
the leaders in after life. Like the farmer who bought 
the cow for $12.25 an d sold it for $9.75, they gain on 
the cents, but lose on the dollars. 

Martin Charles Ansorge. 

american surety building 
100 broadway 

NEW YORK 

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April ii } IQ12. 

A RE there any of us, I wonder, who have need of 
-**- the warning of the Decennial Committee that the 
letters giving the list of our activities since leaving 
college "should not be more than one page in length"? 
For the honor of the class, I hope so. I trust there are 
many whose achievements when set forth in print will 
cause the records in the Congressional Directory or in 
Who's Who to shrink into insignificance. However, I 
am not one of those. Nor do I have any temptation to 
violate the decree of banishment promulgated by our 
committee against "a false sense of modesty"; the 
modesty of my doings prevents it. 

In 1905 the powers- that- be at Columbia gave me the 
right to put A.M. and LL.B. after my name, when I 
feel alphabetically inclined. Since then I have been 
pursuing the elusive dollar and no less elusive fame in 
the practice of law. I am not married, and, as I have 
had a horror of experiments since the days when Chem- 
istry 1 and Physics A were important elements in our 
daily lives, I am not at all likely to attempt the experi- 
ment of matrimony, unless those of you who have tried 
it can assure me that it is no longer in the experimental 
stage. 

David Asch. 

COUNSELLOR AT LAW 

27 WILLIAM STREET, NEW YORK CITY 



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New York, July 8, 191 2. 

/^\UR Decennial Committee, having conceived what 
^S they consider a very novel idea, are asking each 
of us to write a life history on one page. On looking over 
the names of this committee it seems a sure bet that this 
idea must have originated with certain members whose 
habitual practice used to be to have an A placed on 
their daily themes. This is some task for some of us as 
the substance can not be taken from a short story in the 
magazines. However, I will make a try at another 
daily theme and trust that it will not be given to Odell or 
Brewster for review. 

Although I matriculated with the Class of 1903 College 
and was with you during our victorious scraps in the 
Freshman and Sophomore years, I then changed to the 
Science Course, taking my degree with 1904 Science. 

In February, 1906, I was married to Miss Julia M. 
Van Vliet of Goshen, New York, and have one son, 
Daniel Read Bacon, Jr., born January, 1907, who is 
1904/s class boy. 

My business record since graduating is as follows: 

1904. Traffic Department of The Central District 

Printing and Telegraph Company, Pittsburgh, 
Pennsylvania. 

1904-1905. Electric Testing Department of the Otis Elevator 
Company, Yonkers, New York. 

1905-1907. Assistant Electrical Engineer with Sanderson 
and Porter, 52 William Street, New York City. 

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1 907-1 908. Estimator in Construction Department, Western 
Electric Company, New York City. 

1 908- 1 909. Superintendent of Construction on Revamping 
of Sayre Electric Company's Plant, Sayre, 
Pennsylvania. 

1909-1910. Electrical Engineer with R. D. Kimball and Com- 
pany, New York City. 

1 910 to date. Consulting Engineer, 30 Church Street, New 
York City. 

My home address is 63 Heights Road, Ridgewood, 
New Jersey. 

Daniel R. Bacon. 

CONSULTING ENGINEER 

30 CHURCH STREET 
NEW YORK 

P. S. December 6, 1913. 

Since writing my autobiography some 18 months 
ago there have been two events which might properly be 
added to it. William Van Vliet Bacon, my second son 
was born in July 191 2. On January 1, 191 3, Conrad D. 
Trubenbach, C.E., 1905, formed a partnership with me 
to do consulting engineering under the name of Daniel 
R. Bacon, Conrad D. Trubenbach, Consulting Engi- 
neers, 30 Church Street, New York, N. Y. 



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TN THE fall of 1903 I entered the General Theological 
A Seminary at Chelsea Square in New York to study 
for Holy Orders, and was graduated from there May 31, 
1906. During my seminary course I acted as Lay-reader 
at St. Thomas' Chapel, and spent each summer at their 
Fresh Air Home on Long Island helping with the 
children. In March, 1906, I was appointed for work 
in the Diocese of Hankow, China, my appointment to 
take effect at my ordination. I was made a Deacon 
in St. Thomas' Chapel on Whitsunday, June 3, 1906, 
by the Rt. Rev. Frederick Courtney, Bishop of Nova 
Scotia (resigned) ; and sailed from Vancouver for Shang- 
hai, China, on Monday, August 13, on the steamer 
Empress of China. Illness prevented my remaining 
in the mission field and after four months I returned to 
New York. For a short time while recuperating I 
supplied at The Church of The Heavenly Rest; and on 
April first became Junior Curate at St. Thomas' Chapel 
where I remained until June, 1909. On Trinity Sun- 
day, 1907, I was ordained Priest by the Rt. Rev. David 
H. Greer in The Church of Zion and St. Timothy; and 
in June, 1909, at the invitation of the Bishop of Albany, 
I became Pries t-in-charge of two Missions in northern 
New York: St. Philip's, Norwood; and Grace Church, 
Norfolk; where I am still stationed. In 191 1 I received 
my B.D. degree at the General Seminary. 

I am not married nor likely to be soon, lacking the 
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Norwood, so drop in sometime on your way to or from 
the Thousand Islands. 

P. S. {very important). On September 9, 19 10, I had 
the honor of uniting in marriage Howard Allen Keeler 
and the loveliest girl ever; but perhaps you know all 
about it. 

George Frederick Bambach. 

P. S. December 3, 1913. 

In September 191 2 I was called to become Rector of 
the Church of the Holy Apostles, Brooklyn, N. Y., and 
on November 3, took charge. Am still here. Ready 
and anxious to receive my friends at any time. 

CHURCH OF THE HOLY APOSTLES 

GREENWOOD AVENUE NEAR PROSPECT AVENUE 

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 



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March 26, 1913. 

HP HE hardest work I did in my Senior year was to col- 
*• lect copy for the Senior Year Book, and without 
exactly intending to get even with anybody I have cer- 
tainly given the present editorial staff a good work-out. 
The truth of the matter is that I don't have time to write 
letters any more. It's like going fishing — a fellow would 
like to mighty well, but then he's got to weed the garden 
or else take some uncomfortable consequences. And the 
consequences in these grown-up days are too serious to 
be disregarded. So I am "on the job" early and late, 
and my friends have to be content with telepathic mes- 
sages. 

But to get down to facts, I celebrated my graduation 
with a good hard attack of typhoid fever, and came out 
of it with brand new hair and a wholesome respect for 
germs as trouble-makers. After taking some graduate 
work and an extra degree at Columbia, I sallied forth 
into the world to make my fortune. I should say to make 
a living, for I am a teacher, and all the world knows that 
teachers do not own automobiles nor clip semi-annual 
coupons. For two years I taught English at Ohio 
Wesleyan University, and in 1907 I got my chance to 
organize and develop a department of my own at De- 
Pauw University, in Greencastle, Indiana. Ever since 
then I have been trying to put a little "pep" into the 
business of teaching college students to write English. 
On the side, another fellow and I have written a book 
which bears the modest title, "The Art of Writing Eng- 

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I903 ON PARADE 



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lish." It is due to run the gauntlet this spring. Through 
the influence of my distinguished relative (?) in Albany 
I have succeeded in getting myself elected President of 
the Indiana Association of Teachers of English. Fur- 
thermore it is my gleeful privilege as President of the 
Indiana Association of Columbia Alumni to keep George 
Dan ton (1902) at hard labor as Secretary of the same 
organization. . . . Oh, yes, and I have married 
me a wife! On December 15, 1908, Mabel Bonnell, 
DePauw 1903, librarian of DePauw University, added 
Barnes to her name, and since then I have not lacked for 
good companionship a single day. Our latchstring is 
always out. This way, 1903! 

N. W. 6arnes. 

DE PAUW UNIVERSITY 
GREENCASTLE, INDIANA 



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July 4, IQ12. 

AD to relate I have not even a romance to eke out 
^ my story — I have not been able to fool anyone into 
accepting my heart and hand and "eight-a-week," 
some one who would share my joys and double my 
expenses. Professor Bottany Curtis succeeded in get- 
ting me an appointment to the position of assistant in 
the United States Bureau of Forestry and I spent my 
first summer out of college in the New Hampshire hills, 
practising forestry. There seemed, however, to be so 
little in it except health that I followed the logical course 
of some of the timber I had cut, till it brought me to 
the export center of the "Old Town" (little old New 
York) and I finally got into the employ of a freight brok- 
erage firm named Williams and Terhune. They have 
been trying ever since to get me out, but haven't suc- 
ceeded yet. In 1905, I went into Squadron A, Cavalry 
N. G. S. N. Y. (now First Squadron, First Regiment). 

1 went from private to corporal and then to sergeant 
and am now second senior sergeant in my troop. For 
three years I served on the newly formed University 
Committee on Athletics. 

This I fear is the sum total of items that I can put 
before you, much as I regret that I cannot be a more 
interesting subscriber to your Dream Book of the Class 
of 1903. 

Robert B. Bartholomew. 



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New York, July 10, IQ12. 

r INHERE is not a great deal for me to say. I started 
** in business in October, 1902, with the brokerage 
firm of Harris, Gates and Company. On January 1, 
1904, I became connected with W. B. Franklin and Com- 
pany and became the board member of this firm Jan- 
uary 1, 1905. And still am. 

On April 23, 1904, I married Anita B. Boulton, of 
New York City. At present I have two sons. That's 
about all there is to it. 

John G. Bates. 

W. B. FRANKLIN & CO. 

BANKERS AND BROKERS 

III BROADWAY 



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April 30, IQI2. 

HPHE nine years, 1903-19 12, comprise for me, stating 
*• it briefly, two years of University work, one as 
Scholar, and the other as Fellow, of Germanic Language 
and Literatures; and seven years of teaching, one away 
from Columbia and the others at it. During two summers 
I was abroad, studying Germanic institutions. Cares 
and considerations have kept me from doing some things 
I should like to have done. But there is the future 
ahead. These years, apparently lean, have been full 
of experiences, and preparatory, I take it, to fatter, 
if not fat years, to come. 
I am not married. 

Alexander O. Bechert. 

BARNARD COLLEGE 
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 
NEW YORK 



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New York, July 10, IQ12. 

\ FTER graduating in 1903, I entered The Columbia 
-*■** University Law School. I was admitted to the 
New York Bar in the fall of 1905, and graduated from 
the Law School in the spring of 1906. I entered the law 
office of Philbin, Beekman and Menken and practiced 
law until the fall of 1909, when I left the profession of 
the law, and started in the business of real estate, in the 
office of Pease and Elliman, at 340 Madison Avenue, 
where I am now located. 

Henry R. Beekman. 

PEASE AND ELLIMAN 
340 MADISON AVENUE 



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January 31, 1913. 

TT IS impossible for me to send you any history or 
**• autobiography. I have done absolutely nothing 
since I left college except to grow old, holding on to my 
job, and seeing to it that I didn't get married. Data 
of this kind, you see, is hardly worth while being printed, 
and is surely below the dignity of your publication. 

DlNO BlGONGIARI. 



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April 19, 1 91 3. 

TTAVE received my M.D. degree from New York 
*■* **• University in 1897 and the following two years 
I spent as house-surgeon at the French Hospital of New 
York. 

In 1903 I received the degree of A.B. from Columbia 
College and the following four years I spent at the Uni- 
versity in the Department of Philosophy taking Psy- 
chology for my major and Philosophy and Anthropology 
for my minor subjects. 

In 1907 I was appointed adjunct-surgeon to the French 
Hospital, in 191 1 adjunct-surgeon to Sydenham Hospital 
and in 191 3 Chief-Surgeon to the same hospital. 

In reference to the questions submitted : 

I live and practice at 1845 Seventh Avenue, New York 
City, confine myself to surgery, am single, have done 
nothing in politics, have not published anything and have 
received no other professional honors outside of the above 
appointments, have travelled in the United States a 
few weeks each year and my plans for the future are 
surgery. 

M. I. Blank. 

1845 SEVENTH AVENUE 
NEW YORK CITY 



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April 12, 1 91 2. 

\ FTER leaving college, I entered the employ of the 
■**■ C. M. Allen Company, wholesale dry goods, 
notions, etc., located at 726-738 Market Street, Phila- 
delphia, where I became superintendent. 

In 1905 I returned to New York as the C. M. Allen 
Company retired from business and I became general 
salesman for the Teff t, Weller Company 320-330 Broad- 
way, where I remained for seven years. 

Then followed a few minor positions until I entered 
the employ of Gimbel Brothers, 33d Street and Sixth 
Avenue, where I have taken charge of the contract in 
five departments. 

In October, 1907, I married Miss Grace A. Fellows of 
Jersey City. We have two children, Miss Natalie 
Tefft Bogue, four years old, and Miss Dorothy Fellows 
Bogue, two years old. I live at 2244 Boulevard, Jersey 
City, New Jersey. 

Frank Tefft Bogue. 

P. S. December J, 191 3. 

My new business address is: 

NATIONAL CREDIT OFFICE 

50 UNION SQUARE 

NEW YORK 

and my new home address 

10 VIRGINIA TERRACE 
JERSEY CITY, N. J. 

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San Francisco, Cal., May 15, 191 2. 

TVTY ACTIVITIES since graduation have been ex- 
•^ •*• clusively of a business nature. I went to Grafton, 
West Virginia, almost immediately after leaving college, 
where I became connected in a clerical capacity with Hon. 
John T. McGraw. Aside from his very large business 
interests, Colonel McGraw was chairman of the Demo- 
cratic State Committee, and member of the Democratic 
National Committee for West Virginia, and as such di- 
rected the campaign in that state in 1904. I had more 
or less to do with the same. 

In 1905 I returned to New York where I opened 
an office at 25 Broad Street, and for a year devoted 
myself to handling West Virginia coal and timber 
lands. 

In 1906 I entered the employ of the Mexican National 
Packing Company as assistant to the secretary in the 
company's New York office, and in 1907 I went to Mexico 
City as assistant auditor. I became cashier of the com- 
pany, which developed into one of the largest industrial 
enterprises in Mexico. In 1910 The United States 
Banking Company of Mexico City failed, involving the 
packing company. Shortly thereafter I left Mexico, 
and went to Seattle, Washington. 

In Seattle I went to work for E. J 3 . Jamison and Com- 
pany, a machinery and equipment house with several 
branches. I acted as salesman, and later as purchasing 
agent and traffic manager. In March of this year I 

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left this firm and came to San Francisco, where I am at 
present located as a representative of the firm whose 
name is below. 

Yeoman Briggs. 

bastian brothers company 

ADVERTISING NOVELTIES AND SIGNS 

P. S. December 8, 1913. 

I enclose a business card which correctly describes 
my present occupation, and gives my proper address. 
The company with which I am identified is the largest 
retail drug enterprise in the West, and operates at present 
twenty-two stores, two wholesale houses, and one manu- 
facturing plant on the Pacific Coast. The volume of its 
business is large. 

OFFICE MANAGER 
OWL DRUG COMPANY 
6ll MISSION STREET 
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



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New York, April 11, IQ12. 

r\N GRADUATION, I entered the New York Law 
^^ School and in August, 1905, was admitted to 
the Bar. On January 1, 1906, I began the practice of 
the law in partnership with Morton K. Averill, Colum- 
bia, 1901. This relation continued until March 1, 1909, 
when I became a member of the firm of Patterson and 
Brinckerhoff, in association with John Patterson, Col- 
umbia, 1892, and have been so associated ever since, 
with offices at 43 Cedar Street, New York City. 

I am unmarried, have held no political offices or 
achieved any social honors, but despite the negative 
character of this confession, feel that the past nine years 
have not been wasted, as I have enjoyed my work and 
continuous good health. 

Herbert C. Brinckerhoff. 

PATTERSON AND BRINCKERHOFF 

COUNSELORS AT LAW 

43 CEDAR STREET 



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ML Morrison, Col., July 15, igi 2. 

A FTER leaving Columbia, I tutored Horace Mann 
*■*■ students for a year, after which I entered the New 
York Law School, graduating in 1906. I was admitted 
to the New York Bar in that year, and practised law for 
a short time. I took up farming in Massachusetts, and 
after remaining there two years, I returned to Denver, 
Colorado, my old home. After spending some time in 
the wilds of Colorado, I bought a ranch here and have 
been working on it for several years. 

B. F. Butler. 

P. S. December 4, 1913 

Address changed to Littleton, Colorado. Perhaps I 
ought to tell you that I have been studying music a little 
and have written several songs, but have not yet had 
any published. 

LITTLETON, COL. 



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October 18, igi2. 

'VFO LONGER can I withstand the insistent demands 
^^ to know what I have been doing since we broke 
pipe-stems together around that little yew tree which 
died under the influence of 1904. 

As a matter of fact, it has not been much. I tampered 
with the Law School for a semester and then did a little 
spasmodic newspaper work and then, in 1905, came out 
to China as a Student Interpreter in the service of an 
ungrateful republic. After thirteen months in Peking 
devoted to the pursuit of the elusive Chinese character, 
I was ordered to Shanghai for service in the Consulate 
General but spent most of my time in the General Hos- 
pital. I was returned, after six months service, to 
Peking to complete the balance of my two years' course 
in Chinese and in January, 1908, was once more sent to 
Shanghai, where I served until April, 1909, as Additional 
Interpreter, Interpreter, and Mixed Court Assessor, 
with the rank of Vice Consul-General. 

The little red gods of politics then turned against 
me and I was shipped north to Tientsin as Vice- and 
Deputy Consul-General and Interpreter and served 
there till February, 1910, when I had a month's respite 
in charge at Newchwang, and thereafter until December, 
with the exception of the time spent on duty, as Inter- 
preter, with the Commercial Commission from the Pacific 
Coast which toured China in September and October 
of that year. On December 1, 1910, I shook the dust 
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and bright but alcoholic South and served as Vice and 
Deputy Consul-General and Interpreter at Canton 
until March 15, 191 2, when I assumed the charge of 
the Consulate-General which I now retain. 

On September 9, 1910, I annexed in Tientsin the best 
little girl in the world. 

Hamilton Butler. 

american consulate-general 
canton, china 



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February 13, 1913. 

¥ S IT not remarkable how little one can do in ten long 
*- years? In 1903 the ten years ahead held a wonder- 
land of prizes for us which to-day's retrospect can only 
laugh at. Nevertheless we are alive, we indulge our 
tastes and bad habits and eat in good restaurants. 

After leaving college I finished my course at P. and S., 
graduating in 1906 with the degree of M.D. and also an A. 
M. from Pure Science. I then went to City Hospital on 
Blackwell's Island as Interne, until Jan., 1908, when I 
went to the Manhattan State Hospital on Ward's Island as 
Medical Interne for 8 months. Next I went abroad and 
Oct., 1908, to March, 1909, saw me working in the Univer- 
sity of Vienna where I published a short article on brain 
cell chemistry, the title of which I shall spare you. Fol- 
lowing this I worked in the Psychiatric Clinic in Munich 
for one year and in April, 19 10, returned to New York. 

Now I am practicing medicine. As for hospital posi- 
tions I am Chief of Clinic at the New York Neurological 
Institute, and Assistant Neurologist to the City Hos- 
pital. I am specializing in Neurology and Psychiatry. 
The few things I have written have been published in 
medical journals and text books. I belong to enough 
medical societies to keep me fairly busy. I am not 
married, never mixed in politics and thus far have kept 
out of jail. 

Louis Casamajor. 

342 WEST 56TH STREET 
NEW YORK 

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April 22, IQ12. 

IMMEDIATELY after graduation I entered the pub- 
. lishing business, being engaged in editorial work on 
the Architects' and Builders 1 Magazine. Gradually my 
work broadened until I finally took charge of the whole 
paper as manager about 1907. Since that time, in addi- 
tion to managing the monthly publication, which is now 
known as Architecture and Building, I have directed the 
publication of a number of books. 

In addition to the purely mechanical effort of pub- 
lishing I have edited several book manuscripts and I am 
the author of one technical book: Garages and Motor Boat 
Houses. 

In 1910 The William T. Comstock Company, of which 
I am now the president, was formed for the publication 
of architectural and scientific books. 

I was married to Miss Eleanor Robinson on May 7, 
1907, but lost my wife July 10 of the same year. 

I am a member of the New York Entomological So- 
ciety and devote my spare time to the study of ento- 
mology. I am also a member of the Beta Theta Pi 
Club, but I have no other social or political activities. 

Wm. P. Comstock. 

THE WILLIAM T. COMSTOCK COMPANY 
23 WARREN STREET 
NEW YORK CITY 



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April 16, IQI2. 

TT IS not a lengthy task to set down an account of 
A my activities since our Commencement Day. It 
was my intention to pursue studies in sociology looking 
to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and later to devote 
my life to university teaching. An attack of typhoid 
fever led to a change in my point of view, and instead, 
with but a Master's degree to my credit, I spent a year 
or more in business. 

Again a change — I pursued a short course in the New 
York School of Philanthropy, and in July, 1908, was 
invited by the present Commissioner of Health, Dr. 
Lederle, to become secretary of the Association for the 
Improvement of the Milk Supply of New York City. 
When Dr. Lederle relinquished the care of this organ- 
ization I spent some time in organizing local committees 
in various parts of New York State to fight tuberculosis. 

One more change — the last, I earnestly hope. I have 
returned to the fulfilment of a boyhood wish and hope 
shortly to be ordained Priest in the Anglican Com- 
munion — being the second 1903 man to take Holy Orders. 

John Whiting Crowell. 

P. S. December 2, 1913. 

In 1 9 10 I determined to follow a course of action to 
which as a boy in "prep" school I had committed myself 
and accordingly arranged to enter the General Theologi- 
cal Seminary and become a candidate for Holy Orders 
in the Diocese of Long Island. 

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While at the Seminary I served St. Paul's Church, 
Roosevelt, L. I., and St. John's Church, Sewaren, N. J., 
as a Lay Reader. 

I received Deacon's Orders at the hands of the Bishop 
of Long Island on May 18, 19 13, in the Cathedral of the 
Incarnation, Garden City, and on the 28th was graduated 
from the General Theological Seminary. 

At present I am in residence at Amitysville, L. I., in 
charge of St. Mary's Church. 

ST. mary's church 

AMITYVILLE, N. Y. 



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New York, May 22, igi2. 

\ FTER graduation I started in the arms and ammuni- 
"**■ tion business founded by my grandfather, and have 
continued to be interested in the Remington Arms- 
Union Metallic Cartridge Company. In the spring of 
1904 I made a trip up the Nile to Khartum and into 
Syria, coming home via Constantinople across the Con- 
tinent to Paris. 

In 1906 I made a trip with a party of friends by boat 
to South America, visiting the West Indies, the Guianas, 
and going up the Amazon River a thousand miles as far 
as Manaos. 

I was married in 1907, and have lived in New York in 
the winter, and in Madison, New Jersey, in the summer, 
being interested in trying to work out some of the prob- 
lems of a farm. I have one son. 

M. Hartley Dodge. 

299 BROADWAY 



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April 15, IQ12. 

^TOT many of us, I believe, have made serious history 
^ since leaving college — certainly not I. But even 
so, life has proved to be an interesting and happy ad- 
venture. 

As some of you know, I made my way through col- 
lege as a director of boys' play clubs. My earnings 
during my Junior and Senior years ran from $20 to $40 
weekly; sometimes more. I therefore figured at the time 
I graduated that I ought to be worth a million by Decen- 
nial time. 

I started modestly in the summer of 1903 by finding a 
job with a Fifth Avenue real estate firm, at $10 a week. 
At the end of six months I was promoted to their down- 
town office as a rent collector at $15 a week. 

At the beginning of the year of 1905 I imagined that 
I had matured a plan to become a merchant prince, so 
I went to Philadelphia and entered Wanamaker's. They 
started me at $20 a week as an aisle manager or "floor 
walker." There was abundant experience with this big 
store, and rather encouraging promotions, but I was still 
hopelessly behind that million. In the spring of 1907 
I therefore went with a Philadelphia firm of bankers and 
brokers as a bond salesman. I didn't last the year out 
and was ingloriously "fired" by them. 

Did any of you undergo the experience of trying to find 
employment in New York during that panic time of 
1 907-1 908? If so, you will never forget it. 

Finally by working without pay I became a reporter 

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for one of the Wall Street news bureaus. That was the 
thing that I wanted though, so the salary was a secon- 
dary matter. A little success came in this work and in 
the course of three or four months I was placed on their 
pay-roll and began slowly to get my nerve back. 

About three years ago I started my own business as a 
publicity adviser to down-town business men. This has 
proved a pleasant and fairly profitable undertaking. 

In the fall of 19 10 I was married to Miss Hermine 
Jahns of Hackensack, New Jersey. Although I am now 
thirty-five, and fourteen years her senior, this has been 
the best venture of my life. During Easter week our 
first child arrived and incidently solved our problem as 
to whether or not we should send our boy to Columbia. 
For the name of the child is Jane, and neither of us be- 
lieves in college for girls. 

As to that million — those of you who are proud and 
happy husbands and fathers will understand that my 
ambition has been realized several times over. 

Pendleton Dudley. 
34 pine street 
new york city 



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'VTOTHING of international interest has happened 
*■* to me since June, 1903. 

Upon graduation I took a law course at the New York 
Law School and was admitted to the Bar in 1905. After 
serving an apprenticeship in several law offices I started 
on my own hook. James E. McDonald of our class and 
I opened offices at Sixty Wall Street. We terminated 
our partnership when McDonald went into the District 
Attorney's office and I became associated with the 
Ridders and the New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung. At the 
present time I am the manager of the classified adver- 
tising department. 

So much for business, and now for the social side. 

In 1906 I became the National Secretary of the Phi 
Sigma Kappa Fraternity, <I>.2.K.; in 1908 one of the 
incorporators of the Theta Building Association which 
succeeded in purchasing a $35,000 club house for Phi 
Sigma Kappa at Columbia. I was married on September 
28, 191 1, to Christina Elder McLintock, a cousin of the 
McLintock boys who were members of the class of 1903. 

Henry H. Dyrsen. 

NEW-YORKER STAATS-ZEITUNG 

l82 WILLIAM STREET, CORNER SPRUCE STREET 

NEW YORK CITY 



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March 31, 1913. 

Y\/RITING about one's self is a difficult task. A 
* * sense of modesty causes silence in regard to both 
one's good and bad deeds; a feeling of pride tends to 
make us too eloquent as regards the few good deeds for 
which we may be responsible. 

My career since I left Columbia, where I was partic- 
ularly interested, in addition to my course in athletics, 
in philosophy, ethics, logic, etc., has been that of a mere 
business man endeavoring to earn the mighty dollar, 
in order to get the fever to earn more mighty dollars. 
I might say I find the ethics and logic, about which I 
referred to, great handicaps as earners. I am in the 
real estate and building business, am married, and have 
a boy seven years old of whom I am very proud. That is 
all. " 

Victor M. Earle. 

EARLE & CALHOUN 

REAL ESTATE 

BROADWAY AND 72ND STREET, NEW YORK 



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May 5, IQ13. 

np HOUGH there's little to say, I shall try to give you 
**■ an unvarnished tale of the past ten year's biog- 
raphy. Since I had been old enough to have any 
thought about it, I had determined to be a lawyer. So 
the study of law occupied me after graduation until 
nineteen hundred and five when I was admitted to the 
bar in New Jersey. There I am yet and I suppose my 
experiences meanwhile have been no different than those 
of the average individual of the species known as " Young 
Lawyer," usually are. My office now is in Newark 
where I am a member of the firm of McCarter and 
English. I am neither married nor (as far as I know) 
about to be married. The foregoing is all that I can at 
present think of about myself that can have the slight- 
est interest for posterity. 

Arthur F. Egner. 



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New York, April 23, 1Q12. 

A FTER leaving college in 1903 I became a clerk in 
*** the brokerage house of Albert J. Elias and Com- 
pany. Four years later I was admitted to the firm and 
in 1 910 I became their representative on the New York 
Stock Exchange. 

On November 15, 1910, I married Edna Bernhard. 
Our only child died in March, 191 2. 

I sincerely regret that I have nothing of real impor- 
tance or interest to tell my classmates, but such is the 
case. 

Henry Hart Elias. 

albert j. elias & co. 

BANKERS AND BROKERS 

20 BROAD STREET 



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M 



Y FOUR and five years Fate and Fortune favored 
thusly: 



1903. Summer vacation, toured Europe with B. H. 

Ridder. 

1 903-1 907. Ostwald Laboratory, University of Leipzig. 
Major subject, Physical Chemistry; Minors 
Physics, Mathematics, Mineralogy. Among 
my professors, Ostwald, Des Coudres, Wiener, 
Freundlich, LeBlanc, Zirkel, Hantzsch, Boden- 
stein, Luther. Fellow American students at 
the Ostwald Laboratory, Sammet (now at Bos- 
ton), Lind (University of Michigan), Bray (Uni- 
versity of California), Spear (Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology), MacBain (Manches- 
ter University), Lamb (New York University), 
Mitchell (Leland Stanford, Jr., University), 
Sill (Carnegie Institution). 

1903-1907. Vacations, toured Europe with Sill, Coble (Johns 
Hopkins), Rutter (London University), Mac- 
Dougal (A. M. C, Texas). 

1905. Summer months, Research Bureau, Zurich, 

Switzerland. 

1905. Discovered new physical law in gas kinetics, 

Ostwald Laboratory. 

1 905-1 907. President, American-British Club, Leipzig. 

1 906-1 907. Assistant in Electrochemistry, Ostwald Labo- 
ratory. 

1907. February 25. M.A. and Ph.D. "Summa cum 

Laude," University of Leipzig. Thesis, Ki- 
netics of Contact Sulphuric Acid. 

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1907-1910. Research Laboratory, General Electric Com- 
pany, Schenectady, New York. Invented 
electric furnace processes for arsenical and other 
rebellious ores. Originator of ductile tungsten 
and the Mazda wire. 

1907- Assistant Editor, American Chemical Society, 

Section on Electrochemistry. 

1 9 10- Research Laboratory, Edison Lamp Works, 

Harrison, New Jersey. 

1910. Married to Lottie K. Muller of New York. 

1910. Summer. Visited the chemical and electrical 

works at Berlin, Vienna, Budapest, Elberfeld, 

etc. 

1912. Spring. First paternal joys: a boy, Frederick 

William. 

Publications: Kinetik der Kontak Schwefelsaeure, Z. /. 
Physikal. Chem. vol. 60, pp. 1-69. Ductile 
Tungsten and Molybdenum, Trans. Am. 
Electrochem. Soc. vol. 17, p. 229. Vacuum 
Furnace Metallurgy, ibid, vol. 21, p. 189. 
Fellow : American Association for the Advancement of Science . 
Member : American Chemical Society, American Electrochem- 
ical Society, Deutsche Bunsen Gesellschaft, 
Faraday Society (London), Mazda Club, Newark. 

Colin Fink. 
4oi park avenue 
east orange, n. j. 

P. S. November 29, 191 3. 

The last item submitted to you was, I believe, in regard 
to my invention of ductile tungsten and how my tung- 
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the world. Another invention of importance is my lead- 
ing-in wire in incandescent lamps which takes the place 
of platinum. This wire has been adopted not only by 
the American factories but also by the European facto- 
ries. The annual saving in the American factories nets 
over three million dollars. 

1912- Member of the Reception Committee, Inter- 

national Congress of Applied Chemistry. I 
presented a paper at this Congress entitled 
"Applications of Ductile Tungsten." Printed 
in the Congress Communications, vol. 26, p. 503. 
It has since been printed in a number of 
chemical journals. 

Election to the Council, American Chemical 
Society. 

Election to the Executive Board, New York 
section, American Chemical Society. 

19 13- Adoption of my leading-in wire (platinum sub- 

stitute) by the General Electric Company and 
the National Electric Light Association. 

Adoption of my leading-in wire by the European 
factories. 

Elected to the Committee of Three, "Industrial 
Electrochemistry," of the American Electro- 
chemical Society. 

Reappointed Editor, Section on Electrochemis- 
try of Chemical Abstracts. 

Permanent address: 401 Park Avenue, East Orange, N. J. 
Business address: Edison Lamp Works, General Electric 
Company, Harrison, N. J. 



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HP HE printing at the bottom of this page tells the tale of 
A my activities since graduating, and to one who has 
been through the devious paths that lead to the goal of 
Doctor, almost no list of activities is necessary, for he 
knows. 

From the college, I went to P. and S. and spent four 
years in hard study graduating in 1907, with the degree 
of M.D., and with all the fire and enthusiasm of a newly 
fledged doctor ready to heal all. I then spent two years 
as interne at Bellevue Hospital, — leaving there in Jan- 
uary, 1 910. My next activity was an appointment as 
resident surgeon to the private pavilion at Mt. Sinai 
Hospital where I served for a year, still gaining in ability 
to practise my profession. Since leaving Mt. Sinai 
I have been in private practice, working and waiting for 
the sick to come and be healed. I enjoy an appoint- 
ment as assistant attending physician to St. Michael's 
Hospital, Newark, New Jersey, and one in the Surgical 
Clinic of the Newark City Hospital. 

My social and political activities have been few, con- 
sisting of membership in the various alumni associations 
of the institutions in which I have labored, and in the 
various medical societies of my resident city. 

J. Irving Fort. 

J. IRVING FORT, M.D. 
393 SEVENTH AVENUE 
NEWARK, N. J. 



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New York, July 23, 1QI2. 

A FTER graduating from Columbia College I attended 
-**' Columbia Law School for one year and then con- 
tinued my studies at New York Law School receiving 
my degree of LL.B. in 1905. I then became a clerk 
in the office of Kurzman and Frankenheimer, attorneys, 
of which firm I have been a member since January I, 
1910. 

I am a member of the Bar Association of the City of 
New York, County Lawyers Association, West Side 
Independent Club and American Academy of Political 
and Social Science. 

Walter Frank. 

law offices of 

kurzman and frankenheimer 

25 broad street 



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New York, April 10, IQI2. 

T GIVES me pleasure to send you the following extract 
from Who's Who. 



Fuld, Leonhard Felix, lawyer; born at New York, August 
12, 1883; son of Bernhard and Helene (Schwab) F. ; A.B. 
Columbia, 1903; A.M. 1904; LL.B. 1905; LL.M. 1906; Ph.D. 
1909; unmarried. In practice since 1905; editor for Carnegie 
Institution, Washington, of Sabin's Dictionary American 
Bibliography, 1905-1907; examiner for Municipal Civil 
Service Commission, New York, since 1907; Republican; 
Member Phi Beta Kappa, Author of Police Administration, 
1909. Home, 130 East 110th Street. Office, 299 Broadway, 
New York, New York. 

Leonhard Felix Fuld. 

municipal civil service commission 
299 broadway 



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April 10, 1 01 2. 

A FTER leaving college I entered business as a play 
•**■ broker and am still at it as a member of the firm 
of Selwyn and Company, 1451 Broadway, New York 
City. 

I was married in March, 1907, to Miss Hilda Willson, 
at Evanston, Illinois. 

I am a member of The Players', The Grolier Club, The 
Columbia College Alumni Association, The Bibliographi- 
cal Society of London, The New York Times Alumni 
Association and The Republican Club of my district. 

Crosby Gaige. 

1 45 1 broadway 
new york city 



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New York, Februarys, 1913. 

A^TITH regard to my experience since my graduation, 
* V I may point out, in the first place, that owing to a 
severe attack of typhoid fever in the autumn of 1902, 
I was not able to graduate with the class in June of 1903. 
Upon my recovery, I went abroad with my family for 
several months, and on the opening of college in the 
year 1903, by an arrangement which at that time could 
be made, I took as my last year in the college the work 
of the first-year class in the Law School. I was thus 
enabled to study during that academic year with those 
members of the class of 1903, who, having completed 
their college course and having been awarded the degree 
of Bachelor of Arts, entered the Law School in the regu- 
lar manner. After I had received my degree in 1904, 
I entered the executive offices of the Union Pacific 
Railroad Company under Mr. E. H. Harriman, and 
continued there for upwards of a year and a half. I then 
decided to take up the law as a profession, and with 
that end in view, entered the New York Law School and 
obtained a position as clerk in the office of Whitridge, 
Butler and Rice, Esqs., attorneys and counsellors-at- 
law, at 59 Wall Street. I passed the Bar examin- 
ation in June of 1908, and was admitted to practice 
and sworn in as an attorney at the October, 1908, term 
of the Appellate Division for the First Department. 
I then secured a position with Spencer, Ordway and 
Wierum, Esqs., attorneys and counsellors-at-law, at 
27 William Street, and was associated with them as an 

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attorney in their office for about four years. In Jan- 
uary of 1 91 3, having formed a partnership for the general 
practice of the law with Mr. George H. Bartholomew, a 
graduate of Yale University in the class of 1900, I opened 
offices with Mr. Bartholomew at 43 Cedar Street, and am 
now practising my profession there with him under the 
firm name of Bartholomew and Geer. I am unmarried 
and reside at 60 West 84th Street, in the Borough of 
Manhattan, this city. 

Enos Throop Geer. 



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May 6, iqii. 
T N THE fall of 1903 I went to Cornell and registered as 
A a law student. After a year's work in the law school 
I decided that the practice of law was not the best field 
for me and entered the graduate school of political science 
in the same university. I took my master's degree in 
1905 and my doctorate in 1907. My subjects were eco- 
nomics, politics, and American history. My thesis 
was on Russian Immigration to the United States. Dur- 
ing my last year at Cornell I held a fellowship under 
Professor Willcox. 

In the spring of 1907 I took a position with the federal 
Immigration Commission and had charge of the field 
work and the preparation of the report on Immigrants 
in Cities, which occupies two of the forty-two volumes 
of the Commission's publications. In December, 1909, 
I became a special agent in the Bureau of the Census and 
have held the same position ever since. I have pub- 
lished a few articles in economic and social journals. 

In 1907 I married Miss Sophie Hallow of New York; 
we have no children. 

E. A. GOLDENWEISER. 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR 
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 



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New York, May 2, IQ12. 
OlNCE leaving college in 1901, an emigrant, I have 
^ been engaged in the music publishing business with 
my father. In 1904 I moved to East Orange, New 
Jersey, and married Miss Caroline A. Cochrane. We 
now have two children, a little girl, Cynthia, aged twenty- 
two months and a baby boy, Hamilton A., Jr., aged two 
months. 

As to religious, social and political activities, I have 
been secretary and treasurer for two years of the Bethel 
Men's Adult Bible Class, am now secretary of the First 
Ward Local Interest Club of East Orange, and treasurer 
of the First Ward Republican Club. My address is 
635 Springdale Avenue, East Orange, New Jersey. 

Hamilton A. Gordon. 

HAMILTON S. GORDON 
I4I-I45 WEST 36TH STREET 



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Atlanta, Ga., February 1, IQ13. 

T REGRET that I cannot give anything very interest- 
■*■ ing of my ten years experience. I take pleasure in 
answering categorically the questions in your letter. 

1 . I reside at 303 Washington Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 
and my business address is the Fourth National Bank 
Building. 

2. My present occupation is attorney and counsellor at 
law. 

3. I am married, having persuaded a young lady, 
against her better judgment, to undertake the business 
of life with me, and the date of my marriage is November 
30, 1909. 

4. I am the proud possessor of one son, who, in his very 
young days, was very fond of hearing me sing our col- 
lege songs, and who, at the age of two, can sing "If I 
have a daughter, I'll dress her up in Blue." He was born 
February 8, 191 1. 

5. From 1903 until 1905, my time was spent in the 
Law School at Columbia. Since my graduation from 
the Law School in 1905, I have tried to practice my 
chosen profession — sometimes successfully, sometimes 
unsuccessfully — but always strenuously. 

6. Outside of supporting the "ring busters" in poli- 
tics, I have taken no active interest, have never been a 
candidate for office, and, owing to certain views which 
I hold regarding the payment of pensions to lazy and 
worthless Confederate veterans, who may have suffered 
during the war, but who certainly have not suffered much 

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since the war, I doubt seriously if I could be elected a 
member of the Cemetery Commission. 

7. With the exception of legal briefs, I have published 
nothing. 

8. As to professional honors, I regret to say that so 
far, my efforts as an attorney have not received public 
recognition. It may be prejudice and it may be that 
these efforts are not deserving. I am inclined to believe 
that they are not worthy of the plaudits of a nation. 

9. I have traveled considerably. The possession of 
many old mileage books testify to the fact that I made 
monthly pilgrimages from Atlanta to Memphis, when 
I was in the engaged state. Have not been abroad, but 
have done considerable traveling for pleasure and busi- 
ness in this country. 

10. With reference to your query as to whether I have 
established any business, I doubt it seriously at times. 
With the young lawyers in Atlanta, it is a hard question 
to answer as to whether they are established or not. 

11. My plans for the future are to continue the prac- 
tice of my profession, and to rear a moderate sized family, 
and to send the male members to Columbia. I look 
back with great pleasure upon the six years that I spent 
in New York at Columbia, and I have always promised 
myself the pleasure of coming back some day, when I 
have a son or sons going to the University. 

I trust that this letter will give you the information 
you want, and thank you for your letter. I regret that 
I cannot make it more interesting. 

With kindest regards to you and all in the class of 1903, 
and hoping to see you in the near future, I am 

Herbert J. Haas. 

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March 15, igi 3. 

\ FTER graduation I spent two years in acquiring 
^** what President Butler called the " tinsel of a higher 
education" in the form of a very useful degree in law 
and an equally useless master's degree in arts. After a 
miscellaneous career as a successful law clerk on nothing 
a week, I became assistant counsel to the Public Service 
Commission for the First District. 

I remember reading somewhere that every lawyer owes 
to his profession at least one book. To pay this debt as 
quickly as possible, I perpetrated a book on New York 
Corporations, which has run through several editions. 
The precedent has proved a bad one, for I have been busy 
paying debts of one kind or another ever since. 

Some two years ago I was appointed to a position in the 
office of the President of the Board of Aldermen under 
the title of Examiner, whatever that means. All that 
I can say about it is that I should advise you, if the posi- 
tion is offered you, to decline it as promptly as possible. 

Richard C. Harrison. 

CITY OF NEW YORK 

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT OF 

THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN 



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April 29, 1 91 2. 

A FTER our graduation, I remained at Columbia for 
•*** two years, studying law harder than I ever studied 
anything else. At the end of that time I received the 
degree of A.M. in Administrative Law, and in October, 
1905, was admitted to the Bar of New York State. As 
the prospect of a professional life did not appeal to me, 
I decided not to finish the three-year Law School course, 
and in August, 1905, I started in business; first with the 
New York Trust Company as a messenger, and a few 
weeks later with Shearson, Hammill and Company, a 
Stock Exchange firm, also, as a messenger. After re- 
maining with this firm for about ten months, and having 
occupied several positions, which enabled me to learn 
the business pretty thoroughly, an opportunity came to 
secure a membership in the New York Stock Exchange. 
I joined the Exchange in August, 1906, and ever since 
then I have been a stock and bond broker. Our present 
firm of Hendrickson, Hall and Company, was formed in 
August, 1907, with J. Willet Hall, Edward Tworger and 
Frederick M. Hoyt as my partners. Since then W. Bert- 
ram Remey and W.W. Peabody have been admitted to 
the firm. All of my business associates I became ac- 
quainted with after my start in Wall Street. 

In October, 1906, I was married to Miss Marie Mer- 
ritt of Whitestone, Long Island, a sister of J. I. Merritt, 
Columbia 1906. Since our marriage we have lived at 
Garden City, Long Island. We have a daughter, four 
years old. 

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I am looking forward to our ten-year reunion. Indi- 
vidually, the class of 1903 has never, I believe, been 
surpassed at Columbia, but we should assert our identity 
as a class more strongly in the future than we have 
hitherto. There is nothing too big we can do for Colum- 
bia to repay our debt to her for past and present 
benefits. 

C. LeRoy Hendrickson. 

71 BROADWAY 
NEW YORK 



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New York, July 6, IQ12. 

OlNCE graduation from college, I was graduated from 
^ Columbia Law School and am now engaged in 
practising law in New York City. 

Henry K. Heyman. 

LAW OFFICE OF 
HENRY K. HEYMAN 
56 BEAVER STREET 



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U^ROM 1903 to 191 o I was lecturer on education and 
**■ psychology at The New York Normal School of 
Physical Education. Since 1910 I have been a real 
estate broker, with Mooyer and Marston, 477 Fifth 
Avenue, New York City. 

William F. Hills. 

477 FIFTH AVENUE 
NEW YORK CITY 



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Brooklyn, April 11, IQ12. 

A FTER graduation I specialized for two more years 
•**' under the Faculty of Pure Science in Chemistry, 
receiving the degree of A.M. in 1904. I then went to 
the University of Berlin to continue my studies receiving 
a Ph.D. in 1907. On my return home, I became assist- 
ant in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia and 
remained there three years. I have now gone into busi- 
ness for myself and am member of two chemical firms, 
the Hoffman and Kropff Chemical Company of Brook- 
lyn, manufacturing pure chemicals for scientific purposes 
and the Alco Deo Company, with works near Passaic, 
New Jersey, manufacturing Alco Deo, a solvent for gun- 
cotton, patented by myself. 

I am member of the Chemists' Club, the American 
Chemical Society and the Deutsche Chemische Gesell- 
schaft of Berlin, and have published a number of articles 
in the journals of these societies. 

I was married in 1907 to Miss Helen Cramer of 
Paterson, New Jersey. 

Alfred Hoffman. 



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New York, July io, 1912. 

OlNCE leaving college my business has, for the most 
^ part, been in wholesale dry goods. I spent three 
years in Pittsburgh but that period of suffering is over 
and I am now permanently located in New York. I 
have not lost any of my interest in Columbia and the 
Class of 1903 is as near to my heart as ever. 

Russell P. Hoyt. 

67 WEST 73D STREET 



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March 1, 1913. 

r I^HE facts as to my activities are as follows: 
*■ A.B. Columbia 1903. 

A.M. Columbia 1904 in Political Science Department. 

After one year (1903-1904) at Columbia Law School, 
I finished my law course at the New York Law School — 
LL.B., 1905. 

Admitted to the Bar October, 1905, — commenced 
practise at once in office of M. S. and I. S. Isaacs — and 
became a member of that firm January 1, 1907. 

Outside of law work, I have been interested in politics, 
and for seven years was a member of the Republican 
County Committee; and at various times vice-presi- 
dent of the District Committee of the Twenty-ninth 
Assembly District and of the Republican Club of that 
district. Last fall I helped to organize the Progressive 
party in the Twenty-ninth Assembly District and was 
a candidate for Presidential Elector on the Progressive 
Ticket. 

I was one of the organizers of the City Athletic Club, 
and its secretary since its formation in 1908. Member 
of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; 
the American Historical Society; and various other 
organizations. 

Married in 1910 Edith Somborn Isaacs, and have one 
son, Myron S. Isaacs, and a daughter, Helen Edith 
Isaacs. 

Stanley M. Isaacs. 



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August 9, IQ12. 

A FTER leaving college, I worked for the Auditor's 
'**• Department of the New York Central Railroad for 
two years. After that I came down to Wall Street and 
became a member of the firm of A. Iselin and Company 
in June, 1907. I was married in October, 1904, and have 
two children — a boy nearly eight years old and a girl four 
years old. 

Lewis Iselin. 

36 wall street 

NEW YORK 



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Duluth, Minn., April 2Q, IQI2. 

T^ROM graduation in 1903 until January, 1906, I was 
A employed in various capacities by E. P. Dutton 
and Company, publishers, New York City. On the 
latter date I entered the service of the American Surety 
Company of New York and have been in the service of 
that company at different locations, with one year's 
intermission since that time. I am now about to assume 
the management of its Chicago branch office. 

During the year from April 17, 191 1, to April 17, 
191 2, I was vice-president and director of Little and 
Nolte Company, real estate and insurance agents, 
Duluth, Minnesota. This venture was not a failure, 
nor on the other hand was it a brilliant success, and an 
opportunity presenting itself to re-enter the service of the 
American Surety Company it has seemed best to return 
to the first love. 

My political activities have been confined to the exer- 
cise of the right of suffrage, with, I fear the usual lack 
of intelligent consideration of questions to be voted upon. 
I have also taken such interest in municipal affairs as 
has been possible in the various cities in which I have lived. 
I have enjoyed membership in several clubs, all of 
which connections, however, are to be severed by my 
removal to Chicago. 

The brightest happening in my career since leaving 
college occurred on January 9, 1908. It was my mar- 
riage to Miss Mabel Askey of New York City. We have 

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two sons, Maurice L., Jr., aged three years, and Richard, 
aged one. 

I shall read with much pleasure the record of the doings 
of my classmates for the last nine years, and if this will 
serve to recall me to any of the fellows who might other- 
wise forget my existence, its purpose will have been ful- 
filled. 

M. L. Jenks. 

LITTLE AND NOLTE 
DULUTH, MINN. 



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New York, April 27, IQ12. 

A FTER graduation I entered the School of Architec- 
- **' ture at the University and after completing the 
course, left for Europe where I remained five years. 
I traveled extensively in France, Spain, Italy, etc., and 
having in the interim entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts 
at Paris, took the Government "Diplome" in the fall 
of 1911. 

I am now practicing my profession in New York City. 

Ely J. Kahn. 

P. S. December 6, 1913. 

There is not much to add except that I am a married 
man of some six months standing. 

54 MORNINGSIDE DRIVE 



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April 24, 1 91 3. 

T T PON graduation, I entered the employ of Woodbury 
*^ Ltd., Advertising Agents, 150 Fifth Avenue, and 
stayed with them till December 1st, 1905. I then went 
with the Foster Debevoise Company, Advertising Agents, 
Flatiron Building, New York. I moved with them to 
45 West 34th St., and later to 15 West 38th St., where I 
now have the honor of being located as President of the 
Company. 

In September, 1910, 1 was married to Miss Irma Louise 
Watkins, by the Rev. Geo. F. Bambach, of the Illustrious 
Class of 1903, and assisted by Walter A. Tice, 1904, 
Bernard H. Ridder, 1903, Herbert McLintock, 1903, 
T. Lockwood Perry, 1903, and Ralph W. Cary, 1902. 

My chief interests are my wife, advertising, bridge, 
and tennis. 

Howard Allan Keeler. 

foster debevoise company 

GENERAL ADVERTISING 

15-17 WEST 38TH STREET 
NEW YORK CITY 



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New Rochelle, N. Y., July 12, 1Q12. 

T TOOK my A.B. degree at Columbia with the class 
**■ of 1902. The following year I spent in teaching 
classics at the Irving School, Tarry town, New York. 
In 1904 I went back to Princeton where I had spent my 
Freshman year as an undergraduate, and then I spent 
the next three years in graduate study. I received my 
M.A. in 1905 and Ph.D. in 1906. 

During 1906- 1907 I was instructor in English at 
Princeton University. For the year 1 907-1 908 I was 
awarded the Porter Ogden Jacobus Traveling Fellowship 
from Princeton and spent a year abroad doing graduate 
work at the University of Munich in Germany and Oxford 
University in England. 

In 1 908- 1 909 I was again instructor in English at 
Princeton and at the end of that year was advanced to 
the rank of Assistant Professor in English Literature 
at Princeton — the position which I hold at present. In 
June, 191 1, I was married to Miss Lucy Baldwin Wal- 
radt of New Rochelle, New York. 

You can see that my life has been a quiet one of work 
and study, mainly at Princeton, and the record of the 
ten years holds little, I fear, of general interest. 

Charles W. Kennedy. 

P. S. December j, IQ12. 

My permanent address is Morningside Avenue, Prince- 
ton, N. J. I am still leading the quiet life as Assistant 
Professor of English Literature at Princeton. 

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New York, May 12, igi2. 

OlNCE graduation from Columbia in the spring of 
^ 1903, the time has passed very quickly, and I 
now find with surprise that our Decennial is now only a 
year off. 

I was married in the spring of 1906 to Miss Isabella 
Macomb Wetherill, and have two children. My time 
has been spent almost entirely in New York. 

Going into the banking office of Messrs. Baring, 
Magoun and Company, upon leaving college, I am at 
present in the real estate business with Messrs. Douglas 
L. Ellman and Company. 

Barent Lefferts. 

1 1 EAST 77TH STREET 



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New York, August 10, IQ12. 

T^OLLOWING our graduation in June, 1903, I re- 
•*■ turned to Columbia in the fall of the same year 
and continued my studies for the next two years in the 
School of Applied Science, graduating in 1905 with a 
degree of Mechanical Engineer. 

Immediately on concluding my work that year I 
made a three and a half months tour of Europe during 
the course of which I visited England, France, Holland, 
Belgium, Germany, Italy and Sicily having at once a 
most enjoyable and instructive time. 

Returning in the fall I immediately went to work in 
the shops of the Henry R. Worthington Hydraulic 
Works, at Harrison, New Jersey. There I remained for 
one and a half years, during which time I went through 
practically every department in the plant, which is 
about the largest pump works of its kind in the world. 
At the end of that period of practical work I was trans- 
ferred to the sales office of the same company in Phila- 
delphia, as assistant sales manager. I retained this 
position until the fall of 1910 when I received an offer 
of a position with the international banking house of 
Goldman, Sachs and Company, 60 Wall Street, New 
York City, which I felt it to my best interests to accept. 
I have been with them since that time, spending a good 
part of each week out of town visiting the important 
banking centers of the East, Middle West and South. 

Herbert S. Loveman. 



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New York, May 3, 191 2. 

TN THE fall, following that June when our departure 
* caused to the college such irreparable loss, I enrolled 
as a graduate student in Latin at Columbia, and, at the 
same time, as a student at the New York Law School. 
At the end of the year, realizing that I had come to the 
parting of the ways, I took the broad road to the busy 
city and turned away, with much regret, from the se- 
cluded path of the academic Cloister. (Quite large 
language?) I am now a lawyer in the midst of active 
business life, and the days of the classics seem long past. 
They are, however, most pleasing to remember; and it 
seems to me too bad that the colleges are tending away 
from the classical and toward the practical, to which, 
soon enough, the graduate devotes the larger portion of 
his time. 

Socially and politically I have not been active. 

Whether I say that I am married or unmarried de- 
pends upon whether I refer to the date of the publica- 
tion of this book, or to the date of this letter. 

Harold C. McCollom. 

2 RECTOR STREET 



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April 24, IQ12. 

A FTER leaving college, I received the degree of M.D. 
■*■*' from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, 
Columbia University. I then served for two and one- 
half years on the house staff of the Mount Sinai Hospital 
of this city, leaving there on January 1, 1910. Since 
that time I have been practicing medicine in this city, 
being associated with Dr. Morris Manges. 
I am as yet unmarried. 

Herbert D. Mandelbaum. 



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March 29, 191 3. 

/^\N leaving Columbia at the end of my sophomore 
^-^ year, I became engaged in the publishing business 
with one of the large New York houses. After six years 
I left this line of work to go into the stock brokerage 
business on the Consolidated Stock Exchange. For the 
past three years I have been engaged in the advertising 
business being at present on the advertising force of the 
New- Yorker Staats-Zeitung. 

In 1907 I married Miss Edith Cavanaugh of Savannah. 
I have one son. 

Frederick S. McLintock. 

NEW-YORKER STAATS-ZEITUNG 

182 WILLIAM STREET, CORNER SPRUCE STREET 

NEW YORK CITY 



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March 25, 191 3. 

lV/f Y ACADEMIC activities have consisted (a), of 
•^ *- often seeing the basket-ball team win, (b), of 
being glad that I was associated with the founding of this 
sport at Columbia, (c), and of helping to eliminate the 
annual supply of beer at the reunion. 

My political activities have consisted of voting for 
Roosevelt and in avoiding jury duty. 

My social activities, while entirely fit for publication, 
are only of interest to me and those concerned in them. 

My business activity has consisted largely in acting 
as the representative of American and foreign dramatists 
in the placing of their plays for professional production. 
I am fortunate in the possession of the friendship and 
acquaintance of a great number of prominent authors 
and playwrights, here and abroad. I have found this 
association most interesting and delightful and likewise 
most profitable; for, since 1903, I have sold hundreds of 
plays not of my own but of other people's — which is why 
it's been profitable. I have written several one-act plays 
and curiously enough, had 'em produced! I have like- 
wise secretly collaborated on two or three long plays; 
had another comedy produced in New York which quietly 
went to sleep but is to awaken in the fall. I have also 
sold two other long plays for autumn production one of 
which has made a hit even in Boston, and you are all in- 
vited in New York — if they fail, on passes; if they 
succeed at $2.00 per. 

I should also like to call attention to the fact that I 

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was elected the wittiest man in the class, in the hope that 
this fact, unwarranted jest that it was, may become 
known to the dramatic reviewers and perhaps influence 
their future criticisms of my dialogue! 

I am not engaged. I am not married and I have no 
children ! But my mother and I have got an automobile ! 

Further items of interest are — but — I have used up the 
page allotted. 

Roi Cooper Megrue. 

I43O BROADWAY 
NEW YORK 



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New York, February 5, IQ13. 

T DO not care to go into any details of biography as 
"■■ I think that kind of thing at this stage of life tends 
to exaggeration. I shall therefore content myself with 
the statement that since graduating from Columbia, 
I have studied law and practised it since 1905. I am 
unmarried, but will have been married by the time 
Commencement arrives. 

J. Garfield Moses. 

COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW 

52 WILLIAM STREET 



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New York, April 22, IQ12. 

O INCE leaving college I have attended different classes 
^ at the Art Student's League of New York City 
being much interested in art work. I am not married. 
My business address is The Mott Estate, 778 Eleventh 
Avenue, New York City. 

Hopper Lenox Mott. 

the mott estate 

r. a. wallace 

778 eleventh avenue 



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Newburgh, N. Y., December 8, 191 3. 

OlNCE graduation I have been in the Transportation 
^ business. Starting in September, 1903, I have 
worked in various positions with the Central-Hudson 
Steamboat Company as Passenger Agent, Assistant to 
the President and am now Secretary of The Muchattoes 
Lake Ice Company of Newburgh, N. Y. 

In October, 1905, I married Miss Pauline Clarkson 
Ramsdell of Newburgh, N. Y. I have four children; a 
boy aged 7, a girl 6 years old, and two girls 4 months 
old. 

I am living in Newburgh, N. Y. 

Herbert R. Odell. 

CENTRAL-HUDSON STEAMBOAT COMPANY 
OFFICE OF GENERAL MANAGER 



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tpOR two years after graduation I taught mathematics 
* in the Horace Mann High School. In the spring 
of my second year I tried the examinations for assistant 
teacher of mathematics in the Public High Schools of 
New York City, and a few weeks later was appointed 
to the Manual Training High School of Brooklyn. My 
activities there have not been entirely confined to the 
class-room, for besides teaching every grade of mathe- 
matical work in the school, I have had charge of the 
Lacrosse Team from its organization about five years ago. 
I have also been a member of the Program (organization) 
Committee of the school for several years besides assist- 
ing in other " outside" activities. These interests, with 
church and associational engagements, have kept me 
fairly busy, so busy in fact, that I have done only a little 
post-graduate college work. 

I was married in June, 1907, to Miss Jessie E. Sprague 
of Brooklyn and have two boys, aged 2 years, 9 months, 
and 7 months, respectively. 

L. S. Odell. 



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New York, May 25, IQ12. 

T TPON my graduation in 1903, I entered the Columbia 
*^ University Law School, and in 1904 became an 
editor on the Columbia Law Review, of which I was busi- 
ness manager for the years 1905 and 1906. I received 
the degree of Master of Arts in 1905 and was admitted 
to the Bar in that same year. I played football at Colum- 
bia in 1904, rowed on the Varsity Crew in 1904, 1905 and 
1906, serving as captain the last two years. 

Upon graduation from the Law School, I entered the 
law office of Bowers and Sands in this city, with which 
I am still connected. I reside at 601 West 149th Street. 

I was married in October, 1908, to Miss Laura A. 
Ward of this city. We were blessed with a daughter in 
December, 1910. 

I served on the Admissions Committee of the Columbia 
University Club during the years 1908, 1909 and 1910 
and have been one of the governors of that club since 
1 910. I belong to the Association of the Bar of the 
City of New York, the New York County Lawyers' 
Association, the Alumni Associations of Columbia Col- 
lege and of the Columbia University Law School, of 
which last I am a member of the Standing Committee. 
I believe this is all which can be of any interest. 

Gerald S. O'Loughlin. 

BOWERS AND SANDS 
46 CEDAR STREET 

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TT IS hard to realize that our class is nearing the ten- 
A year mark when we all hope to meet and learn of 
each other's activities and experiences. 

What a collection of stories that will be! Mine lie 
in the realm of travel. Let him listen who will. 

Since graduating my time has been spent mostly in 
traveling; three years in Europe, a trip to Mexico, 
Panama and twice on the Spanish Main. 

My home, at present, is at Asheville, North Carolina. 

T. Lockwood Perry. 

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CLUB 
18 GRAMERCY PARK 



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March 28, 1913. 

T OST among the 12,000 or more attorneys in the 
•*-^ City of New York, why try to draw me from my 
obscurity? Being not even a Benedict, there is nothing 
of interest to tell my fellow-classmates. 

Edgar Pitske. 

COUNSELLOR-AT-LAW 

I56 BROADWAY 
NEW YORK 



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March 27, 1913. 

T T^riTHIN a few days after graduation I went abroad 
* * to study at the University at Leipsiz and traveled 
through Europe. I returned in 1905 and became asso- 
ciated with the New-Yorker Staats-Zeitung, the German 
daily paper, of which I am at present vice-president. 

I was married in January, 1906, to Hilda Luyties, and 
have two children. 

During the past two years as chairman of the Decen- 
nial Committee I have had occasion to meet most of the 
fellows, and I want to thank the members of the Class 
for the way they have helped me and made my duties 
lighter. 

Outside of this I have done a little public speaking and 
a little club life. 

Bernard H. Ridder. 

NEW-YORKER STAATS-ZEITUNG 

182 WILLIAM STREET, CORNER SPRUCE STREET 

NEW YORK CITY 



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July 5, 1912. 

TN 1903 I entered the Columbia Law School, was ad- 
•*• mitted to the Bar in 1905, received an LL.B. and 
A.M. in 1906, and have since been practising law. In 
1 907-1 908, I was secretary to the Corporation Counsel, 
and in January last became a member of the firm of 
Kidder, Ayres and Riggs. 

In 1909, I married Dorothy Kidder and live at 70 
West nth Street. 

Lawrason Riggs, Jr. 

kidder, ayres & riggs 
27 william street 

NEW YORK 



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Mount Vernon, N. Y., July 2, IQ12. 

T DID not finish my college work because my health 
A was bad. I was in Roosevelt hospital in the fall 
of 1902 on account of illness and that broke up my 
courses of study so that I knew I could not graduate with 
1903. I went to Sewanee, Tennessee, in the summer 
of 1904 for the summer school of the University of the 
South. After attending that I went to Harvard and was 
at Harvard during the year 1904- 1905. In the fall of 
1905 I was taken seriously sick and that ended my col- 
lege work. I have been the official court reporter up 
here for about seven years. I was at the New York 
Law School a couple of years ago, for about two months 
in the night school, but doing court reporting and attend- 
ing night school, from up here, was too much and last 
spring, a year ago, I was again in the hospital and had 
to undergo a serious operation. I am quite well now but, 
of course, under the circumstances, since bad health 
had interfered with so many plans heretofore, I have felt 
reluctant to send such a blue record to the Decennial 
book. 

William Rossbach. 

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April 1 1 ,' 1 qi 2. 

TT WILL take only a small page and that double spaced 
•*■ to record my activities since 1903. I have been 
working on The Sun in various capacities almost all the 
time since I left college, doing a great variety of sporting 
assignments, for the most part college athletic events, 
About a year and a half ago I became an automobile man. 
which at this writing still is my job. 
Married? No. 

Charles E. T. Scharps. 



the SUN 
editor's 

NEW YORK 



editor's office 



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New York, May 3, 1912. 

A/TY ATTENTION has been urgently called to the 
-*--*■ fact that it is the duty of the members of the Class 
of 1903, Columbia, to furnish statements of their doings 
since leaving college, that the stories of their lives may 
be brought down to date, and under the threat that 
"you propose to get this information" concerning myself 
sooner or later, I surrender, and produce it forthwith. 

After leaving Columbia College, from which (appar- 
ently through some clerical error) I received a diploma 
erroneously stating that I was entitled to the degree of 
A.B., I went into a mercantile business, in which I 
remained about a year and a half. When I got out of 
college, I was glad to do something different, and having 
done something different, made up my mind I would 
be glad to get back into college again. In the year 1905, 
I decided to study law, a profession which I had always 
intended to take up before becoming surfeited with learn- 
ing at the hands of our Alma Mater, and enrolled in the 
Law School of Yale University, where at the end of three 
years of agreeable work, I received the degree of LL.B. 
Immediately on leaving the Law School, I accepted a 
position in the law office of Blair and Rudd, 26 Liberty 
Street, New York City. In the course of a few months, 
I transferred my allegiance to the office of Roe and 
McCombs, 96 Broadway. 

After about a year and a half of "hard labor" at the 
last mentioned address, I decided to strike out for my- 
self, and prior to January 1, 191 1, formed a partnership 

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with Neilson Olcott, 2d, and Monroe M. Schwarzschild, 
under the firm name of Olcott, Schwarzschild and 
Schramm with offices at 115 Broadway, New York City. 
This partnership is in existence at this moment. 

Arnold O. Schramm. 

OLCOTT, SWARZSCHILD & SCHRAMM 

ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW 

115 BROADWAY 



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Brooklyn, N. Y., February 7, IQ13. 

HP HERE is neither fame nor notoriety in the past 
-*■ ten years of my life. I am a general practitioner 
of medicine having graduated from P. and S. in the year 
1906. I am fairly successful in that I am able to provide 
for the modest needs of a small family. My domestic 
life is happy. I am married seven years and am the 
proud father of two healthy girls, the one, Elvira aged 
41-2 years; the other Nathalie, eleven months old. I 
am satisfied with the earthly goods I possess, and trust 
the time will soon arrive when I may devote some of my 
energies to the higher ideals, which I have learned to 
cherish at the Alma Mater. 

Robert Schulman. 



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May 1, IQ12. 

A S AN abridged autobiography of the last decade I 
•**■ submit the following facts: After graduation I 
remained at Columbia two years as a student in the School 
of Political Science. At the same time I was engaged 
in journalistic work on the New York Times. In 1906 
I joined the Faculty of Yale as instructor in history. 
In 19 10 I returned to Columbia and am now an 
assistant -professor in history. In 1907 I married 
Sadie Van Dyke Brooks of Kansas City. I am aware 
that this letter is about as interesting as an entry in 
Who's Who, but it is difficult to wax eloquent within 
the limits of a page. 

Robert Livingston Schuyler. 

columbia university 
department of history 
new york city 



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Frederick Cromwell Seaman was born in Brooklyn 
on October 6th, 1880. He entered the class of Columbia 
College in 1899 and graduated from the Columbia Law 
School in 1904. 

Following his graduation he worked in the law office of 
Edward H. Fallows and remained there through the 
year of 1906. In February, 1907, he became affiliated 
with the law firm of Doremus and LeCone and in Sep- 
tember of the same year he was taken into partnership, 
the name of the firm being changed to Doremus, LeCone 
and Seaman. 

On April 1st, 1908, he married Ethel Lobdell of Wil- 
mington, Delaware. Their daughter, Esther, was born 
on June 6th, 1909. 

He died on January 17th, 1910, in the twenty-ninth 
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TN 1903, before the close of the term, I left New York, 
-*■ on an Alaskan trip with Dr. F. A. Cook, who has 
since then been the victim of much misrepresentation. 
Our attempt to scale Mt. McKinley was unsuccessful, 
but we explored a considerable area and had plenty of 
incident. My experience of some five months with Dr. 
Cook, convinced me that he was a sincere and capable 
leader, equal to any emergency. 

Returning late in the fall for post-graduate work, I 
was greatly disappointed to find that, through lack of a 
technical " half-point," my name had not been among the 
illustrious 1903 on Commencement Day. Continuing 
for two years more, I worked for an M.A. in Science, 
choosing a course similar to what is now called Chemical 
Engineering. 

My first job was in the Bound Brook, (New Jersey) 
laboratory of the Standard Paint Company, but later I 
devoted more time to the mechanical side of the business, 
than to the chemical. We instituted a department of 
economies with gratifying results and, after visiting other 
American factories of the company, I went to the Ham- 
burg Works in 1908. There we installed an electric 
transmission system, improved the process of manufac- 
ture, increased the speed of production and reduced the 
coal bill seventy-five per centum. 

In 1 910 it was decided to build a factory near London. 
I took charge of this work, and new types of machinery 
were designed and the buildings so constructed that the 

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plant was far less expensive, than any heretofore built. 
At the same time the capacity is large, the labor force 
small and the coal consumption one half that of any 
similar works. An interesting point is the recourse to 
belt drives, which entirely take the place of electric 
motors. The arrangement of the plant makes this 
feasible and more economical than the usually accepted 
method. 

Coming back to native shores in the summer of 191 1, 
I devoted my energies to the commercial aspect of a new 
method of securing water-proof cement and concrete 
construction. 

I am not married, but often wonder whether or not 
the disadvantages of a roving life outweigh the ad- 
vantages. 

Ralph L. Shainwald, Jr. 

P. S. December j, IQ13. 

My marriage is now to be noted. 



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Philadelphia, Pa., April 22, igi 2. 

A FTER leaving college and having received an A.M. 
'**• in political economy, I studied the manufacture 
of woolens in the Philadelphia Textile School for a year 
and in different mills for another year. Was with Henry 
W. T. Mali and Company for about five years and am 
now connected with William Wood and Company of 
Philadelphia in the same line. 

In 1909 I married Mina Bach — our daughter Geral- 
dine was born in 191 1. 

Jerome B. Shoenfeld. 

WILLIAM WOOD & COMPANY 

45 e. 17TH street 



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New York, May 28, IQI2. 

AyT Y ACTIVITIES since graduation have been strictly 
*** confined to the business world. I have been en- 

gaged in the importing and manufacturing of laces and 
embroideries, entering this career immediately upon 
leaving college, and am at present secretary of the below 
named concern. In the course of my business affairs 
it is necessary for me to frequently visit the foreign lands, 
and this has been of great interest and benefit to me. 

My entire time has been devoted to my business career 
and I still remain single. 

Other than the above activities, I have devoted a great 
deal of time to Masonic affairs, and next year expect 
to be honored by being elected master of my Masonic 
Lodge. 

I am pleased to state I have as yet not missed a single 
reunion of our class or do I either expect to, and it has 
always been a great pleasure for me to see again those 
with whom I was associated in academic days. 

Walter S. Spiegelberg. 

UNION IMPORT CO. 
100 FIFTH AVENUE 



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July 5, IQI2. 

TT GIVES me inward pain and some outward appear- 
A ance of grief that I am not so situated that I can be 
with you on gala occasions, but my spirit is there with 
the other "spirits." Ouch! 

Many changes on the campus and many changes in 
personal appearance have doubtless taken place but the 
loyalty of 1903 is steadfast. To us, outside the immedi- 
ate zone of Columbia influence, other matters take our 
attention, city building grasps our time, family support 
keeps us busy, so we do not keep up the fires on the altar 
of college enthusiasm, but, at times, it flares up brightly, 
and, warming us, makes us desire to be again with Alma 
Mater. 

Here's a health to you and a tribute from old Kansas, 
breezy, busy, growing, glowing, prosperous, golden, 
grain-enveloped Kansas; the Koh-i-noor in the diadem 
of the Queen of the world, the granary of America, the 
headquarters of intellect and the hindquarters of kick 
against the oppression of the "wicked" trusts (sustained 
applause) Kansas the home of — oh, hell, what's the use! 
You 2 by 4 New Yorkers won't believe it till you come 
and see it all, and if you come, you'll stay, and be New 
Yorkers no longer but Kansans. 

Harry W. Stanley. 

WICHITA, KANSAS 



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March 20, 1913. 

T GRADUATED from New York Law School, June 
•*■ 1903 ; was admitted to the bar October, I905 r practis- 
ing law ever since. I formed a partnership with Eugene 
S. Kremer, Esq., October, 1912, at 100 Broadway. I 
married Edna Wolff, March 20, 1907, and have had one 
boy, John Arthur. Free — white — vaccinated — never in 
jail or bankruptcy. No other or further claim to dis- 
tinction. My home address is 808 West End Avenue, 
New York City. 

Arthur L. Strasser. 



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July 6, IQI2. 

\^L y^HAT I have to say regarding my achievements 
* * since my departure from college can be said very 
compactly. I took an A.M. in 1904 at the University 
and entered the English Department in the following 
year. I have retained this appointment, with the cus- 
tomary advances, ever since, and am now called In- 
structor in English. My leisure time has been devoted 
largely to miscellaneous writing. 

In 1906 I married Miss Jessie Hurd, of Syracuse, New 
York. We have a promising little family of one girl, 
Imogene Hurd Steeves, who is a little over three years 
old, and a boy, Harrison Ross Steeves, Jr., who recently 
celebrated six months of pleasurable, though sometimes 
rather obstreperous, existence. My address is 596 
Riverside Drive, New York City. 

H. R. Steeves. 

596 RIVERSIDE DRIVE 
NEW YORK CITY 

P. 5. December 2, 1913. 

I believe there is that nothing has happened to me 
since my letter to the class that would affect my posi- 
tion in the eyes of the world unless it is the award of my 
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May 16, IQ12. 

"D EGARDING an autobiography, the letter head will 
A ^ tell the whole story. 

Further: — I am not married (or threatened). I 
have not dabbled in politics. My social activities are 
just about as circumscribed as my academic activities. 

In other words, I have really nothing of any impor- 
tance to write about. 

George A. K. Sutton. 

COUNSELOR AT LAW 

37 WALL STREET 
NEW YORK 



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July 6, IQ12. 

TV/TY LIFE since graduation has been rather unevent- 
■*• A ful. I remained at Columbia University for nearly 
two years as assistant in mathematics and at the same 
time doing graduate work in mathematics, astronomy, 
and mechanics. 

In March, 1905, I was appointed instructor in mathe- 
matics in the Boys' High School, Brooklyn, where I 
still am. 

I was married to Miss Mary L. Kidd, July, 1906, 
and have two children; one boy, John David, three years 
old, and one girl, Margaret Louise, one year old. My 
permanent address is 1323 Lincoln Place, Brooklyn, 
New York. 

John A. Swenson. 

I323 LINCOLN PLACE 
BROOKLYN, N. Y. 



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Madison, Wisconsin, July 24, 1912. 

T TAKE it that a personal "record of activities" for a 
**■ decennial class book should be as nearly impersonal 
as the author can make it. Consequently, no matter 
how great the temptation to give my verbal wardrobe 
and my 30-year philosophy of life an airing, I shall resist. 

The years 1904- 1907 were years of continued prepara- 
tion for my life work, the teaching of College English. 
During them I distributed my time between graduate 
work and tutoring. The division was more unequal than 
I should have liked to make it, — unequal in favor of 
tutoring, because I had to keep my expense kettle boil- 
ing satisfactorily. In 1905 I took my Master's degree. 

In 1907 I was gathered into the English Department 
of Columbia as a callow assistant, and tried to do as 
well by the then undergraduates as I had been done by. 
The year after that saw the catalogue list me as "In- 
structor." 

From 1907-1911 I attempted to serve the college, 
and then moved to the University of Wisconsin at Madi- 
son in the same field of Endeavor but with a somewhat 
wider range of work than the English A and English B 
of our Fostering Mother — peace to their memory — 
allowed me. The present year will find me in the same 
berth. 

I am unmarried but not unhappy. 

Warner Taylor. 

university of wisconsin 

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Brooklyn, N. Y., February 7, 1913. 

A FTER graduation in 1903, I attended the Colum- 
-*** bia Law School and graduated in 1905, and was 
admitted to practice in this state in June of that year. 
Was married the same year, and have practiced my pro- 
fession in Brooklyn, ever since. 

I have two sons, one aged five years, and the other two. 

In politics I am affiliated with the Democratic party, 
and have been active therein for the past eight years. 
I was a member of the Democratic County General Com- 
mittee for five years, and in the political strife in Kings 
County the year before the death of Senator McCarren 
I was permanently identified with the Anti-McCarren 
forces. I was selected as Brooklyn's representative in 
the Mayoralty Convention in Carnegie Hall, to answer 
the late Senator McCarren when he sought to hold the 
position that Brooklyn was entitled to the nomination 
for Comptroller of the City of New York, on the ground 
that Mayor Gaynor, nominee of that convention, was 
not in the strictest sense a Brooklynite, and in such 
answer I was selected to second the nomination of Mr. 
Moore, who was the Democratic nominee for Comptroller 
of the City of New York in the last municipal campaign, 
after the death of McCarren, having been identified 
with the Anti-McCooly wing of the Democratic party. 
Was selected to nominate Thomas F. Magner as Justice 
of the Supreme Court in the Judiciary Convention two 
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to nominating and endorsing Justice Samuel T. Maddox, 
a Republican. 

I am a member of the Brooklyn Federation of Jewish 
Charities, a Director in the Hebrew Educational Society 
of Brooklyn, and a director of the Hebrew Free School 
of Brooklyn. I have business offices at 44 Court Street. 
I have no professional honors (this latter is an answer 
to your question as to same) , except the honor of making 
a comfortable living. Have published nothing except, 
in this letter, my greatness. 

In addition to being active in politics and practising 
law, I have also given some attention to Brooklyn real 
estate speculation, wherein I am neither a novice nor a 
master. 

Samuel A. Telsey. 

ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR-AT-LAW 
44 COURT STREET 



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New York, July 6, IQI2. 

TV/fY ACTIVITIES since leaving college have been 
** about as follows: 

1 903-1 906. Student in School of Mines, Columbia Univer- 
sity. 

1906. Degree of C.E., Columbia University. 

1 906-1 907. With the Trussed Concrete Steel Company, New 
York City. 

1 907-1 908. With the Webber Construction Company, New 
York City. 

1 908-1 909. Assistant Engineer for the General Fireproofing 
Company, Boston, Mass. 

1909 to date. Engineer for the Webber Construction Com- 
pany, New York City. 

W. F. Thoman. 

WEBBER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 

ENGINEERS, BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS 

162 EAST 23RD STREET 



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March 25 , 1913. 

OUFFICE it to state that at the present writing I am 
^ well, happy, unmarried and employed by the firm 
of Jackson and Curtis in the marketing of investment 
securities. 

Henry Clark Townsend, Jr. 

jackson & curtis 
43 exchange place 

NEW YORK 



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T^ROM my early youth, my education was neglected. 
•*- My parents did not provide, in their plans for my 
future, that I should be a B.A. of Columbia College. 
It was not until I had almost completed the academic 
course in the College of the City of New York that I 
realized that I stood no more chance in life than a jack- 
rabbit on Broadway unless I could write after my name 
"Columbia, 1903." So I was deprived of four years 
association with a body of men whom I would like to 
have known better. 

My birthplace was Cumberland, in "Maryland, my 
Maryland." Thence I removed to New York at the 
age of seven — with my family, of course. Received my 
education in the public schools of the city, for which I 
have been thankful all my life. Was graduated B.A. 
of C.C.N.Y. in the class of 1902. 

After my never-to-be-forgotten year at Columbia, I 
entered the Episcopal Theological School at Cambridge, 
Mass., from which I was graduated B.D. in 1906. On 
June 10, 1906, Bishop Greer of New York ordained me 
to the Diaconate in the Church of Christ. 

In August of that year, I left for the West, reported 
myself to Bishop F. S. Spalding at Salt Lake City, for 
work in Nevada, arrived in Elko September 3, where I 
found a brother Phi Gamma Delta as missionary-in- 
charge. He sent me still further west, to Battle Mountain 
where I took up my residence. For eighteen months I 
served as missionary for Battle Mountain, Austin, 
Eureka, and intermediate places. My field covered 

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Lander and Eureka Counties, an area as big as New 
Hampshire and Vermont, which I traveled over by rail- 
road, broad and narrow gauge, and by stage. It was an 
experience which I would not exchange for that of any 
member of the class. I was ordained Priest by Bishop 
Spalding in Logan, Utah, December 19, 1906. 

In May, 1908, I was called to be the rector of St. 
Mark's Parish, Tonopah, the world-famed mining camp. 
Here I remained for almost two years. The boom days 
were over, and the camp had settled down to a steady, 
progressive, orderly life. 

On August 25, 1909, 1 married Miss Margaret M. Lloyd 
in St. Andrew's Church, Battle Mountain, which had 
been built during my ministry there. 

January 1, 1910, I began my service as rector of St. 
Peter's Parish, Carson City, which has been interesting, 
but uneventful. I have organized a men's dinner-club 
for the discussion of civic affairs. I have been for three 
years the chairman of the Social Service Commission of 
the District of Nevada, and have attended two Councils 
of the Eighth Missionary Department as one of the four 
clerical delegates from Nevada. At present I am editor 
of the Nevada Churchman, a local Church paper. 

Except for the call of family and friends, calls which 
always sound loud no matter over what vast distances 
they are shouted, I hear no voices from the East. The 
desert has got me, and its grip is tight. Its dust and its 
distances, its brownness and its breezes, its mountains, 
and specially its men — these have but to speak in whis- 
pers, and their voices drown out the tumultuous roar of 
city traffic. Come West, any of you, and we will have a 
1903 reunion, even if only myself and one other. But I 

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fear the decennial must do without my physical presence, 
though I will be present in spirit. God speed you all, 
the Class, the College, and the University of the Blue and 
White! 

Lloyd Brant Thomas. 



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M 



April 11, IQ12. 

Y ACTIVITIES since graduating in 1903 are as 
follows : — 



During the winter of 1 903-1 904 I was a student in the 
Mechanical Engineering course at Columbia University; 
1 904-1 905 in the same course at Massachusetts Institute 
of Technology. Following that, I was engaged for 
about a year in engineering work with the Erie Railroad 
as a draftsman and surveyor at Middle town, New York, 
and also up in western New York state. Resuming 
my studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
I specialized in locomotive construction and also did 
some interesting research work in aeroplane design. I 
was then engaged in engineering work with the New 
York Central Railroad, having a chance to measure up 
stray portions of New York, Weehawken and Westches- 
ter. The panic of 1907 was a bad thing, more than this 
I cannot say ; however, the fall of 1908 found me at Hamp- 
ton Institute, that remarkable industrial agricultural 
and normal school for Negroes and Indians. The 
year spent there was the most interesting of my exper- 
ience ; one might call it research work in practical Chris- 
tianity, for nowhere else have I seen it so thoroughly 
demonstrated. Returning from there, I secured my 
present position with the American Locomotive Company. 
I am also engaged in extension teaching at Teachers 
College, and have in the course of this work written 
several articles and given addresses on subjects pertain- 

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ing to industrial education. My political activities 
have not been out of the ordinary; I consider myself a 
somewhat radically progressive Republican. 

Wm. F. Turnbull. 

AMERICAN LOCOMOTIVE COMPANY 
30 CHURCH STREET 
NEW YORK 

P. S. December 1, 191 3. 

This year I became a member of the American Society 
of Mechanical Engineers. I am also lecturing under 
the auspices of the Board of Education in several of the 
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July 4, Q12. 
/CLASSIFY me in your advertising medium — chrono- 
^"^ logically thus: — 

Up to 1903. At Columbia, A.B. 
1 903- 1 905. At Columbia, A.M. 

1 905-1 906. Chemist, Consolidated Gas Company, New York 
City. Expert, Department of Water Supply, 
Gas and Electricity, New York City. 

1906-1908. Chemist, Power and Mining Machinery Com- 
pany, Milwaukee, Wis. Chemist, Loomis- 
Pettibone Company, New York City. 

1908-1910. Chemist, General Electric Company, Research 
Laboratory, Schenectady, New York. 

1910-1911. Chemist, Commercial Research Company, Tucka- 
hoe, New York. 

1911-1912. Expert, United States Department of Agricul- 
ture, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania. 

Auto-istically — Clutch not in — Foot not yet slipped — 
Running idle. 

B. R. von Sholly. 



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July 3, 191 2. 

J CONDUCT a mortgage loan business in my own 
A name at 220 Broadway and live with my wife at 
215 Cathedral Parkway, New York City. 

R. H. Waddell. 

220 BROADWAY 
NEW YORK CITY 



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April 15 , IQ12. 

A FTER graduation from Columbia College, I at- 
^* tended Columbia Law School, received my degree 
in 1906 and have since been practising my profession in 
New York City. 

On June 1, 1909 I married Olive Roe, Barnard 1908. 
I have two children, Leonard M. Wallstein, Jr., born 
February 27, 1910, and Robert Roe Wallstein, born 
March 3, 1912. 

Leonard M. Wallstein. 

100 BROADWAY 
NEW YORK CITY 



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April 13, 1 91 2. 

\ RECORD of my principal activities since leaving 
**** college would mention that upon graduation I 
continued work in the University, mainly in the Germanic 
Department and in the Department of Psychology, the 
latter eventually absorbing all my activities of an aca- 
demic nature. I took an A.M. in this Department in 
1904 and a Ph.D. in 1906, being University Fellow in 
Psychology during that year. Later in the same year 
I was appointed Lecturer in Barnard College, remaining 
in this position until the summer of 1907, when I came 
to McLean Hospital to take up research work in the 
problems of mental disease, in which I have been occu- 
pied ever since. During 1910-191 1 I carried on this work 
at the State Psychiatric Institute, Ward's Island, New 
York, and at this time I also lectured upon the subject 
at Columbia. 

I am a Fellow of the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science and a member of the American 
Psychological Association, the American Psychopatholo- 
gical Association and the New England Society of 
Psychiatry. Reports of the work in which I have been 
engaged have been printed either as articles or mono- 
graphs, in various technical publications. 

F. Lyman Wells. 

MCLEAN HOSPITAL 
WAVERLEY, MASS. 



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New York City, May 7, 1912. 

OlNCE leaving college I have devoted myself chiefly 
^ to literature, writing (in collaboration) the follow- 
ing plays: The Fortunes of the King, produced by Mr. 
James K. Hackett, By Right of Sword, produced by Mr. 
Ralph Stuart, The Sinner, produced by Mr. Henry B. 
Harris, with Mr. Robert Edeson, in the chief r61e. 

Also, I have contributed to the magazines with some 
success. 

For two years, I was in the warehouse business, but 
finding very little money was to be made in this line, in 
comparison with the risk and responsibilities involved, 
I withdrew. 

I am still enjoying the peaceful life of a bachelor. My 
address is 7 West 50th Street, New York City. 

Leonidas Westervelt. 
7 west 50th street 



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New York, May 1, IQ12. 

O INCE leaving college I have led a quiet and unevent- 
^ ful life being employed by various brokerage and 
banking houses in New York for over eight years. In 
the latter part of April, 1912, I started in business for 
myself as a bond broker. 

Edwin Wolff. 

229 west 97th street 



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New York, May 4, 1912. 

X AM at present and have been for some time associated 
•* with a retail furniture concern in a general capacity. 
Nor have I any special news of interest to give in regard 
to myself. 

Albert Wortman. 

ludwig baumann & company 
35th street and eighth avenue 



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New York, Feb. 17, 1913. 

TVTY ten years' experience since I left college, I am 
*** ■*■ afraid, has not been very interesting. My home 
address is 64 Park Avenue. My business address is 
25 Broad Street. I was married November 14, 1906. I 
have no children. 

I have been a stock broker ever since I left college 
with the exception of the first year which I spent as a 
clerk in a trust company. 

I have done nothing in politics and have published 
nothing, no professional honors; have traveled consider- 
ably, both here and abroad. Am a commission broker 
on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and have 
no other plans for the future. 

Harold H. Weekes. 

CHAS. D. BARNEY & CO. 
25 BROAD STREET 



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July g, 1912. 

A FTER my graduation in 1903, I attended the Col- 
- ^** lumbia Law School for one year, and then in the 
fall of 1904, entered the New York Law School from 
which institution, I received the degree of Bachelor of 
Laws in June, 1905. In September of that year, I began 
the practice of law with the firm of Reid, Esselstyn and 
Ketcham, at 35 Wall Street, New York City. 

I was married on January 29, 191 2, to Miss Margaret 
E. Clarke of Brooklyn, New York, and am now living at 
White Plains, New York. 

I am a member of the Holland Society of New York, 
the New York Society of Colonial Wars and the Cres- 
cent Athletic Club of Brooklyn. 

C. J. Wyckoff. 

P. S. December 3, 1913. 

Note should be made of the birth of a daughter, 
Margaret Wyckoff, on November 10, 1913. 

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y. 



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February 7, IQ13. 

HHHE record of my activity can be stated briefly. 
"■* Home address, 13 West 89th Street, New York 
City. Business address, care of the Standard Paint 
Company, Bound Brook, N. J. Present occupation, 
chemist with the Standard Paint Company. I have 
been connected with the concern during the past ten 
years. Not married, and have done nothing along politi- 
cal lines. I have published some articles and taken 
out various patents. Professional honors? No. I have 
traveled in the United States, Europe, Canada, the West 
Indies, and other countries. My plans for the future 
are to stick to my present work. 

H. Abraham. 

STANDARD PAINT COMPANY, 
BOUND BROOK, N. J. 



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April 24, IQ13. 

^PHE facts are as follows: Home address, 202 Riverside 
* Drive, New York City. I expect to leave town 
next fall, but my permanent mail address is 90 West 
Broadway, New York City. Business address, 70 East 
45th Street, New York City. Occupation, with the 
Bridge Department, Electric Zone, New York Central 
and Hudson River Railroad. Married, Miss Alice L. 
Piatt, October 3, 1908. Children, Henry Webster Ap- 
lington, Jr., born, October 24, 1909, Sophronia Pardee 
Aplington, born June 24, 191 1, and Alice Piatt Apling- 
ton, born November 21, 1912. 

For the first two and one-half years after graduation 
I did metallurgical and mining work, except a short time 
in railroad location. Since then I have been located in 
New York City, doing civil engineering work on the 
Hudson Tubes, with the Public Service Commission, 
and with the Bridge Department of the New York Cen- 
tral. Have taken no part in politics. At the present 
time I am getting out a small book of mathematical 
tables. Have no professional honors. I traveled a good 
deal through the United States until the end of 1905, 
since that time less extensively. 

Henry W. Aplington. 

70 EAST 45TH STREET, 
NEW YORK CITY. 



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May 2, 1 913. 

T'AIRECTLY after leaving College and finishing a 
*^ summer's cruise down off the New England and 
Canadian Coasts, I hit the trail for the Mountains of 
Colorado, entering the employ of the Kerber Mining 
and Development Company as assistant to the General 
Manager. Until three years ago it was largely a repeti- 
tion of active mining work relieved by trips home to 
New York, taking advantage of vacation opportunities 
in winter to do so. The second year out the assistant 
was dropped and I moved to the manager's position. 
This lasted until 1910. Since then I have been in charge 
of the engineering and mechanical development in the 
Paint and Varnish Manufacturing Company of John 
W. Masury & Son with factories in Brooklyn, N. Y. 
My home addresses are 170 South Broadway, New 
York, N. Y. and 1 Gramercy Park, New York City. 
The future I cannot predict except to say we are build- 
ing, but in justice must say; the post has been kind and 
more than pleasant in its store of good friends. 

William S. Baldwin. 



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April 28, 1 913. 

TV/fY activities since leaving college are as follows: 
*■ -*• Home address, 8 Marble Hill avenue, New York 
City. Business address, care of E. N. Breitung & Com- 
pany, 11 Pine Street, New York City. Occupation, 
examining engineer. Married December 1, 1908. Have 
two children, Katherine Brewster Barling, born, August 
17, 191 1, and Marian Meade Barling, born, March 30, 

1913. 

After graduation I became superintendent of a gold 
mine at Gainesville, Ga., and since then have been sup- 
erintendent of a borax mine in California, examining 
engineer for estate of Marcus Daly in United States and 
Mexico, chief engineer for the San Antonio Copper Com- 
pany, Sonora, Mexico, and general manager of the 
New York and Honduras Rosario Mining Company, 
San Juancito, Honduras. At present I am examining 
engineer for E. N. Breitung and Company, in Colom- 
bia, S. A. 

H. B. Barling. 

E. N. BREITUNG AND COMPANY, 
II PINE STREET, 
NEW YORK CITY 



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April 22, 1913. 
ASA matter of record, I was for one year with the 
'**' architectural Firm of Carrere and Hastings. 
The following six years, I was in Paris at L'Ecole des 
Beaux Arts. I received my diploma from that insti- 
tution in 1910 and returned to America. Since that 
time, I have been for a short while with J. E. R. Carpenter 
and also W. W. Bosworth, both architects. A year ago, 
sufficient work justified me in hanging out my shingle 
and since then I have had my office at this address. 

Wm. Harmon Beers. 

architect, 

235 fifth avenue, 

new york city 



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February 15, IQ13. 

1V/TY life history can be described chronologically: 
^ ■*■ Born September 19, 1880, in Germany. In 1893, 
emigrated to America. In 1903, graduated from Colum- 
bia University with a degree of C. E. From 1903 to 
1905, instructor in Civil Engineering in Cornell Uni- 
versity. From 1905 to 1906, engaged in railroad loca- 
tion in Indiana. From 1906 to 1908, superintendent of 
construction on Pelham Bridge, a reinforced concrete 
structure, and a power house on the East River and 
150th Street. From 1909 until the present time, I have 
been chief engineer for Alexander Potter, Consulting 
Engineer, on sanitation, hydraulics and reinforced con- 
crete constructions. 

Beginning in 1907 and continuing up to the present 
time, I have lectured on reinfocred concrete construction 
at the Teachers College, Columbia University. 

On June 4, 1909, I married Emma Eiermann. I have 
three children, Theodore Beyer, born April 20, 191 1, 
and Walter Beyer and Harold Beyer, the two latter being 
twins, born March 9, 1913. 

I am a member of Sigma Xi and Tau Beta Pi. 

Albin H. Beyer. 



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May 1, 1913. 

TV/TY home is at Cranford, N. J., 405 Union Avenue, 
and my business address is 50 Church Street, 
New York. 

I am at present manager of the New York Office of 
the Morse Chain of Ithaca, N. Y., my work being that 
of Sales Engineer, covering a territory of about a 100- 
mile radius; this position I have had for the past six 
years and have come in contact with some very fine 
industrial power transmission problems. 

During all this time I was busy evenings at certain 
favored periods of the year and my vacations were 
much taken up with trips to Chicago where "she" 
lived. The excess fare trains brought me to my senses 
for since it was not company business I had to stand it 
myself. But on October 14, 1909 the New York-Chi- 
cago carfares stopped, but the subway car fares to 
Times Square and 33rd Street began, as that day I 
was married to Edith Seymour of Oak Park, Illinois. 
After this "Happy Day," we came to New York City 
to live, but in the course of events the appearance of 
my son, Robert Seymour Bigelow, born July, 1910, made 
the suburbs seem more desirable. 

During the past ten years, I have not done so badly, 
in fact quite well I believe, for I have kept out of jail, 
have not as yet joined Tammany Hall though I foresee 
the inevitable, have never had my business investigated 

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by the government, always bet on Yale, root for the 
Giants and voted for Wilson, so I am not a loser. Out- 
side of this success, I was with Mr. Fred A. Goetze one 
year after graduation as an assistant on Buildings and 
Grounds, a position I thoroughly enjoyed, having con- 
genial work and a fine man to work for. I am glad he's 
our Dean today. After leaving the University and 
Mr. Goetze, I went with the A. D. Granger Company 
and got my first experience as Sales Engineer. Mr. 
Granger is an ex-Columbia man of the famous Class of 
"'92' ' so of course I received fine treatment. I left 
this company in March, 1907, and went with my pres- 
ent concern. As for politics I voted for Taft and he 
was elected, I voted for Wilson and he was elected and 
I stayed away from the Bull Moosers — all of which I 
think is considerable political achievement. In June, 
1906, I went abroad and landed at Glasgow. I looked 
up an old Columbia man, a Scotchman, in Edinburgh, 
who showed me some real Scotch (and soda). I went to 
England and saw the finals in the Henley Regatta, 
a wonderful sight, went to Germany, but got lost trying 
to buy an ice cream soda, and came home. 

In November, 1906, went to the Isthmus of Panama 
with "Teddy" though not on the same ship and stayed 
there ten days and saw the beginning of that great 
work and felt proud of my country; stopped at Kingston, 
Jamaica on the way up and missed the Earthquake by 
one month. I have established the business of being 
a loyal Columbia man, and of trying to hold 1903 to- 

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gether and follow in 'o^'s footsteps and I hope everyone 
who reads this will buy some stock in this company. 
Large dividends are assured. 

L. C. Bigelow. 

MORSE CHAIN COMPANY, 

NEW YORK OFFICE. 

50 church Street, 
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February 14, 191 3. 

THE story of my life since leaving college is easily 
told. 

My first job was with the General Electric Company 
in the Testing Department, and my first task was 
bailing oil out of a casting. This was a tin dinner pail 
and overalls job. At the end of six months, I had an 
offer from the Ozone- Vanillin Company to go to Paris, 
France, and assist in taking over, for use in this country, 
a process for the manufacture of vanillin. On my return 
to the States, I started the installation of the plant at 
Niagara Falls; resigned, and then went into the Provi- 
dence office of the American Telephone and Telegraph 
Company. Six months of this cured me of any desire 
to be a "telephone girl" and I returned to New York 
to engage in experimental work on the production of 
ozone. After a year at this, I returned to the tin pail 
and overalls variety of job and, in the next two years, 
traveled considerably and secured most valuable experi- 
ence with the Construction and Engineering Depart- 
ments of the General Electric Company. In June, 1908, 
I returned to New York and became associated with 
my father and brother on a wet chemical process for 
the extraction of copper. We are still engaged on this 
work, and I am Secretary of the two companies which 
were formed to carry out the work, i.e., Bradley Copper 
Process Company and Copper Extraction Company. 

I am unmarried; do business at 41 Park Row, live at 

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260 West 76th Street, New York City ; vote the Republi- 
can ticket; have never engaged in politics, never re- 
ceived professional honors, nor ever published anything. 

Alonzo B. Bradley. 

CHARLES S. BRADLEY & SONS 

CONSULTING ENGINEERS 

41 PARK ROW 
NEW YORK CITY 



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April 30, iqij. 

13 EGARDING my history for the past ten years, 
A ^ the answers to the questions are as follows : — 

(1) Home address, 800 Third Street, Louisville, Ky. 
Business address, Chief Engineer's Office, Louisville 
& Nashville Railroad, Louisville, Ky. 

(2) Present occupation, Bridge Engineering. 

(3) Am not married. 

(5) During the past ten years my record is as follows : 

June 1903, entered drafting room of the Pencoyd 
Plant of the American Bridge Company. 

January 1904, Transferred to Ambridge Plant of the 
American Bridge Company, Ambridge, Pa. 

December 1905 to March 1912, Assistant Bridge 
Engineer, Louisville & Nashville Railroad, Louisville, 
Ky. 

March 1912 to date, Bridge Engineer, Louisville & 
Nashville Railroad Company, Louisville, Ky. 

^6) Have taken no active part in politics. 

7) Have not published anything. 

[8) No professional honors. 

[9) Have not traveled in foreign lands. 

10) Have established no business. 

11) Have no particular plans for the future. 

F. A. Busse. 

LOUISVILLE & NASHVILLE RAILROAD COMPANY, 
OFFICE OF CHIEF ENGINEER, 
LOUISVILLE, KY. 

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February 11 , 191 3. 

TT will give me great pleasure to fill out these several 
■*• answers to the questions asked, but that I did not 
realize that I was a member of 1903 as I received my 
Degree from the School of Architecture in 1904. 
The following are my answers to your questions: 

l < 333 North Broad Street, Elizabeth, N. J. 103 
Park Avenue, New York City. 

2. Practising Architecture. 

3. Unmarried. 

4. Unmarried. 

5. During the past ten years I have practised archi- 
tecture, travelled and hunted big game. 

6. No. 

7. Yes. Articles in several magazines. 

8. No. 

9. Yes. Through Europe. 

10. Yes, My own. 

11. Yes. My own. 

ARCHITECT 

103 PARK AVENUE, 

NEW YORK CITY 



Shiras Campbell. 



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May 23, 1913. 

^PHE story of my life since leaving the University is 
-*- very easily told. 

Upon graduation, I traveled through the United 
States for some three or four months, and then took a 
position with the Remington Arms- Union Metallic 
Cartridge Company in their factory at Bridgeport, 
where I remained for three years doing almost every- 
thing in the line of work to be done in the plant, from 
shooting sparrows in the warehouse to Assistant Pur- 
chasing Agent. 

At the end of that period, traveling seemed to appeal 
to me, so I started out as a demonstrator and traveled 
through New York state and all of New England giving 
shooting exhibitions. 

From there I went to Arkansas and Oklahoma a9 
District Manager and traveled that country for two 
years. 

Following this, I traveled the United States for two 
years as a general trouble fixer and went from coast to 
coast, covering in all during my traveling career in the 
neighborhood of three hundred thousand miles. 

Following this experience, I took a position as 
Advertising Manager for the same concern, and have 
remained in that position, taking on the additional 
responsibility of Manager of Representatives, for the 
past two years. 

I am not married, nor have I ever dabbled in politics 
or literature to any extent. 

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At present I am living in Englewood, N. J. My plans 
for the future will depend largely upon circumstances 
and where the best bet leads me. 

F. B. Clark. 

REMINGTON ARMS-UNION METALLIC CARTRIDGE CO. 

AMMUNITION AND FIRE ARMS. 

299-3OI BROADWAY, 
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March 28, IQ13. 

HP EN years ago a graduate of ten years standing was 
-*■ an old Dub. Today he is still a dub, but not 
such an old one, yet one who has just waked up to the 
fact that he has been out of college ten years, and hasn't 
a whole lot to show for it in the way of increased wisdom 
or accomplishment. 

Having felt no particular desire to be mossy I have 
done considerable rolling around since graduation. 
Starting out at the New York Navy Yard. I migrated 
from there to Columbus, Ohio, where I masqueraded 
as ^ part of the faculty of Ohio State University. 
After three years I felt guilty about perpetrating such 
a frost in the Student and came back to New York 
to work for a living in the New York Telephone Company 
— fearing to be prosecuted as a monopolist or accessory 
to the crime. I left their ranks and entered the employ 
of a company of electrical contractors, who are not in 
anyway related to " Anthony" although very benign 
in spirit. 

I can not boast of being an ancestor and so will brag 
about remaining a bachelor, which seems to be quite 
a distraction judging from the replies to this question 
at our class dinner on March twenty-fifth. 

Allan Coggeshall. 
l. k. comstock & company 

(incorporated) 
contracting engineers 

30 CHURCH STREET, NEW YORK 

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May ig } 1913. 

TTOW can a man put ten years of his life's story on 
-*■ -*• one sheet of paper? Don't know whether I am 
4 'down and out," "come back" or "on my way." Have 
been down as far as South America, out as far as England 
and the continent and am now back, so think I must be 
in the third class, "on my way." 

Now for the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the 
truth. 

Home address, 325 Convent Avenue, New York City. 
Business address, 103 Park Avenue, New York City. 
Occupation, Secretary and Treasurer, Cooper Construc- 
tion Company. Married, June 24, 1907. Children, 
too young to be named. Past ten years? Too long a 
story. Politics? Changed a few Argentine laws. Pub- 
lished anything? Hope not. Traveled? Lived abroad 
for five years, but have traveled to Paterson, Hoboken 
and Brooklyn. Business, Cooper Construction Company, 
general contractors for architectural and engineering 
construction. Plans for future? Not being a palmist 
or crystal gazer, have none. 

Everitt M. Cooper . 

COOPER CONSTRUCTION COMPANY, 
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May 2, 1 91 3. 

ID EFORE the end of Sophomore Year I left Columbia 
**■* and started my business career in an iron foundry 
at Cold Spring on the Hudson River, working as a 
moulder's apprentice in green sand and loam. I lived 
in a big country house with fifteen to twenty men who 
were all working in the same plant. A number of them 
were college men and we managed to have a good time. 
Our day started at 7 a. m. and finished at 6 p. m. 

My principal recollections of Cold Spring are, first 
the interminable period of existence between breakfast 
and lunch each day, and secondly our hockey team which 
practised on the river during the lunch hour. We 
played a schedule of ten games, and ended the season 
by tying the Columbia team of which Arthur Wolff 
was then the captain. After a year in the foundry and 
machine shops, I went into the plant office and from 
there to the New York Office where I stayed until 
January 1, 1910. Since then I have been working for 
the St. Joseph Lead Company at 5 Nassau Street, 
New York City. 

In December, 1902, I married Ruth Arven Jones of 
New York City. I have three daughters, Arven, born 
October 17, 1903, Emily Lefferts, November, 1907 
and a baby six weeks old. We have an apartment at 
201 West 55th Street, New York City. I never made 
any money in politics, nor have I acquired fame asan 
author. (The reason is obvious.) I spent three months 
abroad in the summer of 1907 and traveled through the 

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West in 191 1, and up to date the Grand Canyon is the 
finest thing I have ever seen. I am glad to say that I 
have not missed a Poughkeepsie boat race for fourteen 
years, have also had the pleasure of seeing Columbia 
win on Carnegie Lake at Princeton for the last two years, 
and hope to see in the near future, a winning football 
team once more in the field. 

Irwin H. Cornell. 

ST. JOSEPH LEAD COMPANY 
5 NASSAU STREET 
NEW YORK 



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May 13, 1913. 

T HAVE been delaying from day to day the pleasure 
A of composing my obituary in the hope like Mr. 
Micawber that " something would turn up" so that I 
might have something to tell you, but without avail. 
I will, therefore, not waste valuable space in Who's 
Who in America but will simply answer your questions 
chronologically. 

My home is at Oyster Bay, L. I. 

My business address is 30 East 42nd Street, New 
York. 

I am at present the junior partner in the firm of 
Crocker Brothers, Pig Iron Commission Merchants, 
founded many years ago by my father. 

I was married on June 4, 1907 and have one child, 
Arthur Mas ten Crocker, born in New York May 7, 1909. 

During the past ten years I have been chasing dollars 
so that the butcher, the baker and the candlestick- 
maker would not chase me. 

My activity in politics is limited to casting ballots 
against T. R. in his home town. 

I have not published anything but am writing a book 
entitled "The Art of Procrastination. " Of course a 
true artist in this line can never finish anything so I 
must leave this task to my executors. My professional 
honors will come when my book is published. 

In the last ten years I have travelled over 100,000 
miles — on 60-trip monthly tickets — with the exception 
of a trip abroad. 

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I have established the lucrative business of raising 
vegetables each summer and selling them to myself 
at twice the price for which I could secure them else- 
where. I am a firm believer however in free trade, 
except in this instance where the principle applies to 
my own product. 

You are at liberty to suppress any or all the above 
except my home and business address that I may not 
miss the pleasure of an occasional call from the members 
of the class of 1903. 

George A. Crocker, Jr. 

30 EAST 42ND STREET 
NEW YORK 



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February 14, 1913. 

A^TITH reference to a synopsis of my doings for the 
* * ten years since graduating, I am glad to attach 
an outline of as much of my past as will bear investi- 
gation. 

Address: 23 Turner Street, Willimantic, Conn., Gen- 
eral Engineer of The American Thread Company, 260- 
266 West Broadway, New York City. 

Married at Westfield, N. J., October 13th, 1906, 
to Miss Isabelle Marion Hills of Minneapolis, Minn. 

October 12th, 1910, Juliette Curry was born at Willi- 
mantic, Conn. 

Upon graduating, went to Schenectady, where, with 
Alonzo B. Bradley (alias "Spider") and a number of 
other Columbia men, served a short term at hard labor 
with the General Electric Company, who seemed glad 
of a chance to farm me out to the United Engineering 
and Contracting Company, of New York City, 1904. 
Was employed by this latter concern as erecting Super- 
intendent on work which they were doing in the Brook- 
lyn Navy Yard. From there, went with the Standard 
Plunger Elevator Company, of New York City, to do 
their purchasing until the fall of 1906, at which time, 
went with The American Thread Company as Local 
Engineer of their Willimantic Mills. For the past year 
or two, have been filling the position of General Engineer 
of all of this Company's plants. 

I have done nothing in politics worse than voting — 

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but even that can be done badly, as shown by the last 
election. 

My travels have been very limited. Besides using 
up several mileage books on Mr. Mellen's road in New 
England, I took a short trip to England and the Conti- 
nent in the spring of 1912, to investigate Textile Mill 
Power Plants. Returned rejoicing in being an Ameri- 
can and convinced that we Yankees know a thing or 
two ourselves if we can only find the time to think of it. 

Malcolm Curry. 

the american thread company 

OFFICE OF THE GENERAL ENGINEER, 

WILLIMANTIC, CONN. 



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BAMBACH PITSKE 

COOPER 



MEXICAN 
BEAUTIES 



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February 7, 191 3. 

T HAVE been connected with the York Chemical 
* Works for ten years, the first five years as super- 
intendent, lately as Vice-President and manager with 
plenty to do. Am not yet married but have hopes. 
No honors. 

My home address is 713 S. George Street, York Pa. 

Charles H. Dempwolf. 

YORK CHEMICAL WORKS, 
YORK, PA. 



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April 25, 1913. 

A FTER leaving College, I entered New York Law 
^ School from which I was graduated with honor 
in June, 1905 and obtained degree of LL. B. In Octo- 
ber, 1905, I was admitted to the Bar and have been 
engaged since then continuously in the practice of 
patent law. 

I believe one of the questions relates to the statis- 
tics in regard to marriage and in answer will state that 
I am still unmarried. 

Lester F. Dittenhoefer. 

COUNSELOR AT LAW, 
35 NASSAU STREET, 
NEW YORK 



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February 26, IQ13* 

T NOTE that there is put down a list of questions for 
A me to answer and I will endeavor to do so along the 
lines suggested. 

(1) My home address is 445 West 153rd Street, 
New York City. Business address is: Cooper Hewitt 
Electric Company, 730 Grand Street, Hoboken, N. J. 

(2) My present occupation is Commercial Engineer 
for above. 

(3) I was married on November 20, 1906. 

(4) Have a son, W. A. D. Evans, Jr., born May 22, 
1909. 

(5) During the past ten years I have endeavored to 
work hard for the above company. 

(6) My political activities have been slight. Have 
been a Republican and a Bull Moose. 

(7) Have written a few articles for technical journals. 

(8) None that I know of. 

(9) From New York City to Hoboken and back every 
day. Also through the middle West considerably. 

(10) No. 

(11) Have no special plans for the future except to 
keep on at what I am doing now. 

William A. D. Evans. 

COOPER HEWITT ELECTRIC COMPANY 
EIGHTH AND GRAND STREETS, 
HOBOKEN, N. J. 

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February 26, 1 g 13. 

1V/TY information is as follows: Home address, 490 
•*■ Hancock Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. Business ad- 

dress, 463 West Street, New York City. Occupation, 
engineer with the Western Electric Company. Not 
married. I have been with the General Eelctric Com- 
pany, 1903; Gould Storage Battery Company, 1904- 
1909; Western Electric Company, 1909 to date. 

I have traveled considerably through the United States 
east of the Mississippi. I expect to continue in my line 
of telephone engineering. 

S. H. Everett, Jr. 

490 HANCOCK STREET. 
BROOKLYN, N. Y. 



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AS I am not to be let off any longer I will furnish a 
-**- few dry facts. Home address, Dunellen, N. J. 
Business address, Westinghouse, Church, Kerr and 
Company, 37 Wall Street, New York City. Present 
occupation, draftsman. Married June 28, 191 1. No 
children, therefore not eligible to T. R.'s Bull Moose 
Party. After graduation I took a two year appren- 
ticeship course at the Baldwin Locomotive Works, 
Philadelphia, Pa. After completing the shop course I 
stayed with them a year on building construction. 
Hearing of an opening near New York, I left Philadel- 
phia and went with the Ransome Concrete Machinery 
Company who were at that time building a new factory 
at Dunellen, N. J. At first I was the chief and only 
draftsman, but soon business increased until at times 
I had from seven to eight draftsmen. I stayed there 
six years; too long, I decided as I found I was in a rut 
with no great prospects ahead, so about a year ago I 
left them and joined the force of Westinghouse, Church, 
Kerr and Company where I am at present. Have done 
nothing in politics. Have published nothing outside 
of a couple of short technical articles. Am a junior 
member of the American Society of Mechanical Engi- 
neers. Have traveled twice to Europe, once to Cuba. 
Established no business. No particular plans for future 
except to keep out of poorhouse. 

John Faber. 
37 wall street 
new york city 

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April 24, 1 91 3. 
TV/TY business address is at 8 James Street where I 
** A am a partner in the firm of Francis W. Ford's 
Sons, City Surveyors. I am unmarried and at present 
am living at the Hotel Marie Antoinette, Broadway and 
67th Street. 

From 1903 to 1905 I was with the Department of 
Bridges and Buildings, Long Island Railroad; 1905 to 
1906 with the McClintic-Marshall Construction Com- 
pany, and W. S. Bars tow and Company Engineers; 
1906 to date, Francis W. Ford's Sons. 

Walter H. Ford. 

FRANCIS W. FORD'S SONS, 

SURVEYORS. 

8 JAMES STREET 
NEW YORK 



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February 8 } 191 3. 

TN reply to your inquiry of the 4th, in re Decennial 
■* book. My home address is 501 Cathedral Park- 
way; my business address is 22 East 21st Street, New 
York City; my present occupation is that of electrical 
and mechanical contracting and consulting engineer. 
I am not married, have no children, nor can I possibly 
tell the date of my marriage. After graduating, I was 
assistant superintendent for a large electrical contractor 
in this city for one year, after which I established my- 
self in the above mentioned business. 

Eugene Frank. 

electrical and mechanical 
contracting engineer, 
22 east 2 1 st street 

NEW YOkK CITY 



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AT 42 Chestnut Street East Orange, N. J., there 
''**■ dangles a loose latch-string which any member 
of the glorious Class of 1903 may pull, with immediate 
results, any hour, day or night. The writer will certainly 
illustrate the "open door policy" under the influence 
of such a tug on his heartstrings. 

On the ninth floor of the Essex Building, Newark. N. J. 
your fellow classmate has a desk. This is a great help 
in keeping up the bluff he is making, viz.: the pretense 
of earning a living. His present connections are with 
the well-known Columbia "finishing-school," Crocker- 
Wheeler Company, in the sale of electrical machinery. 
Both heads of the firm are graduates of "our Alma 
Mater grand" and so are a few hundred other members 
of the establishment. The writer believes that if every- 
thing goes well and he gets any kind of a "fifty-fifty 
split" on the luck, some day there will be a new head 
of the shebang, — say in about sixty years from date. 
This must not be construed as an effort to "bite the hand 
that feeds" — far be it from yours truly to harbor such 
a thought. 

Married? Yes and glad of it. The fetters of love 
were forged round the slender forms of S. G. H. and 
H. S. G. on April seventeenth, 1907 and thus far the sad 
fetters are very comfortable, thank you. 

On June twentieth, 191 1, home was brightened by 
the welcome arrival of ten pounds of joy, yclept William 
Edgar Glasby after his two grand-dads. It might be 
mentioned that the young heir apparent had no god- 

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parents for this reason: Being very devout and pious 
folk and hearing his two grandmothers spoken of as 
"granddams," it was feared that possibly some thought- 
less soul might in an evil moment address his godmother 
as "goddam." 

During the decade now closing, eighty per cent of 
the writer's time has been spent on the payroll of the 
firm hereinbefore mentioned. In addition to the neces- 
sary activity required to remain on said payroll, a com- 
bination of unforeseen circumstances has forced upon 
him the administration of some family business affairs. 
He is therefore usually quite ready to "hit the hay" 
and sleep the sleep of the "tired business man." Not 
the T. B. M. of musical comedy, but the real thing. 

Regarding politics, have voted twice for T. R. and 
once (unhappy thought!) for W. H. T. The batting 
average, therefore, is .667, although no credit is claimed 
for the "scratch hit" in 1908. Rather should it be 
scored as an "error of judgment. " 

The only things from the writer's pen thus far pub- 
lished have been a few of his weekly expense accounts 
(declared by the publishers, who also happen to be his 
employers, to excel in power of imagination and inventive 
genius anything that has come under their notice in 
years.) Oh yes? One night, when the necessary "stick- 
fuls" came hard, F. P. A. of the "Evening Mail" filled 
in a few lines of his famous " Colyum" with some drivel- 
ing asininity from this Waterman. 

Question 8. Any professional honors? — candor com- 
pels him to answer as did the urchin in the Mother 
Goose rhyme, who, when asked by the Pieman, "Let 

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me see your penny*' was forced to answer, "Please sir. 
I haven't any." 

Except for a few short trips through Canada and the 
Middle West, the writer's traveling has been confined 
to daily short prowlings on business bent; a huntsman 
stalking his prey, a lean and hungry wolf seeking whom 
he may devour, either is a fitting comparison. 

Have devoted so much time to the keeping established 
other people's business that little has been left in which 
to establish an independent one. However, "hope still 
springs eternal" and before long the undersigned 
meteor may flash across the well-known sky some fine 
evening. Better look out! 

Herbert S. Glasby. 



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February 16, 1913. 

AS to my life since leaving college : Home address, 
■*** 291 Spring Street, West Hoboken, N. Y. Busi- 
ness address, care of Gravatt Brothers, 136 Liberty Street, 
New York City. Occupation, Grevatt Brothers, Ex- 
porters and Engineers. I am not married. From 1903 
to 1904, I was employed in the testing department of 
the General Electric Company. During 1904, I was also 
connected with the Atlantic Coast Electric Railway 
Company and from 1904 to 1909 with the Crocker- 
Wheeler Company, electrical engineers. 1909-1911, 
Grevatt & Pulis, electrical engineers and contractors, 
and Grevatt Brothers, 191 1 to the present time. I have 
taken no part in politics and have not written much 
worth while. Have no professional honors. I have 
traveled extensively through the Eastern States, from 
Maine to Florida, in Canada and Porto Rico. Estab- 
lished the firm of Grevatt and Pulis, electrical engineers 
and contractors, which operated nearly three years. 
My future plans are to continue with Grevatt Brothers' 
engineering department, operating in the West Indies. 

F. F. Grevatt. 

GREVATT BROTHERS 
I36 LIBERTY STREET 
NEW YORK CITY 



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February 17, 191 3. 

T) EGARDING information of my illustrious career, 
**' I submit the following "dope." 

Name. Sverre Gulbrandsen (not Svene.) 

Business address. Welsbach Company, Gloucester 
City, N. J. 

Home address. 87 Hunter Street, Woodbury, N. J. 

Occupation. Chemist. 

Married. September 7, 1908. 

Children. One son, Stephens Tucker Gulbrandsen, 
born, Philadelphia, August 17, 191 1. 

Political activities. None. 

I have been with the Welsbach Company ever since 
leaving college. Have held various positions in a chemi- 
cal capacity during this time and am now in charge of 
the Research Department. Have published very little 
except a few articles now and then in the scientific and 
trade journals. Have traveled very little, my longest 
trip being one to Denver in 191 1. No professional 
honors worth speaking of have come my way. As for 
what the future holds in store for me Lord only knows 
and he won't tell. For the present I have no business 
plans beyond my present employment. 

Sverre Gulbrandsen. * 

welsbach company 
gloucester, n. j. 

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March 12, 1913. 

\ S regards a record, since 1904, I have been at mine 
-*■** examination work in the United States, Mexico, 
and Canada, and lately, northern Africa, Spain, and 
Asia Minor. I have published two books, Electro- 
magnetic Ore Separation, 1908, and The Examination of 
Mining Prospects, 191 2. My address is care of the 
American Express Company, Paris, France. My home 
is Stratford, Connecticut. 

C. Godfrey Gunther. 

cook's 
gibraltar 



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June 23, 1 913. 

HHHE following will give an idea of my activities since 
■*■ leaving college. Addresses, Hailey, Idaho, and 
Lima, Peru, South America. Present occupation, Con- 
sulting Mining Engineer. Married, October 15, 1908. 
One child, William Herriman Guyer, born Lima, Peru, 
March 14, 1910. During the past ten years I have been 
engaged in engineering and the management of copper 
and silver properties in Peru. I have taken no part in 
politics. I have not published anything and have had no 
professional honors. I have traveled a great deal. I 
have not established any business of my own but have 
developed and constructed two large plants in Peru. 
My plans for the future contemplate continued mining 
work in Peru and Idaho. 

Raymond Guyer. 

hailey, idaho 

i 



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April 3, IQ13. 

\\T\TYi reference to the history of my life I present 
* * the following : 

1903. Engineer Mexican Asphalt Paving and Con- 
struction Company. 

1905. Assistant Manager of same company. 

1907. Married to Elsa Geist in New York City. 

1909. Daughter born (Catherine Elsa). 

191 1. Third Vice-President Mexican National Gas 
Company. 

191 1. (June). General Manager Mexican National 
Gas Company. 

1 91 2. Left active business in Mexico City; but re- 
mained on Boards of Directors of Paving and Gas Com- 
panies. 

1 91 3. Vice-President and Treasurer of Gas Improve- 
ment Company. Elected to Board of Mexican Petro- 
leum Company (Listed in 191 2 on New York Stock 
Exchange.) 

1913. (March.) Son born (Paul Henry Harwood, Jr.). 

Paul H. Harwood. 

MEXICAN ASPHALT PAVING AND CONSTRUCTION COMPANY 
506 SECURITY BUILDING 
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 



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February 13, 19 13. 

CUBJECT "What have you done?" Answer: Made a 
^ living at mining, over much of the Western United 
States and Mexico, acquiring much experience, many 
interesting memories, and little money. 

A list of the jobs I have held and done would read 
little different from that of any engineer who has covered 
the field. 

As to the points as numbered in your letter, 

1. Frisco, Utah. 

2. Manager of the Horn Silver Mining Company. 

3. Not married. 
4. 

5. As aforesaid. 

6. Voted as often as permitted (by stress of circum- 
stances) . 

7. That honesty is the best policy (to my own satis- 
faction). 

8. No. 

9. In the course of work. 

10. No. 

1 1 . To keep plugging along. 

Wm. H. Hendrickson. 

HORN SILVER MINING CO. 
FRISCO, UTAH 



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March 19, 191 3. 

HHHE history about myself is rather uneventful, as 
• nothing very sensational has happened since 
graduation. I have particularly in mind your question 
No. 3 and question No. 4. I have not had any experi- 
ence with any wedding march only on several occasions 
to have witnessed friends of mine keeping time with the 
Mendelssohn melody, so since I have had no actual 
experiences myself, it would be entirely out of place to 
answer question No. 4. 

Since graduating from College, I spent the first eight 
months as a special apprentice in the Plainfield, N. J., 
shops, of the Niles-Bement- Pond Company, and when 
I thought myself well qualified to enter the ranks of 
salesmen, I was transferred to the New York office of 
the Niles-Bement- Pond Company, who are amongst the 
largest manufacturers of shop machinery in the coun- 
try. 

Everything was going along peacefully until the whole 
world was shocked by the dreadful earthquake, which 
happened in San Francisco in the spring of 1906. Like 
a good many people, I heard the call of the West and 
shortly after the earthquake, made arrangements to 
give up my position in New York during July of 1906, 
and landed in San Francisco. Of course, I had made 
arrangements before leaving to enter the employ of a 
well established concern, which is known on the Coast 

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as Harron, Rickard and McCone, and for several years 
managed their machinery department. 

Sometimes many of us get the idea that we can do 
better by poldding for ourselves and, therefore, in 
December, 1909, I decided to resign from Harron, 
Rickard and McCone, and after spending about three 
months in and around New York negotiating with 
several concerns, returned to San Francisco in March, 
1 910, with what I thought was a full line of good agencies. 
Success was gradually coming my way and in the fall 
of 1 910 I associated myself with Manning, Maxwell 
and Moore and agreed to manage their interests on the 
Coast. At the same time I also agreed to take care of 
the interests of the Commercial Acetylene Company 
and the Railway Materials Company, in addition to 
two or three other accounts, and that is my occupation 
at the present time. My business address is Rooms 247 
and 249 Monadnock Building, San Francisco, Cal. 

It might be of interest also to note that about eighteen 
months ago two or three friends of mine and myself 
incorporated a concern by the name of the Lewis Motor 
Truck Company and decided to manufacture auto 
trucks on the Pacific Coast. We have met with very 
encouraging success and this summer we hope to have 
completed a plant that will have an output of one 
hundred and fifty-one ton, three ton, and five ton trucks, 
per annum. 

This, in short, is my business career since leaving Col- 
lege. I might say that I never had an idle moment 
and was never out of employ or out of business. 

My home address is, at the present time, Key Route 

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Inn, Oakland, Cal., which is located across the Bay 
from San Francisco. In other words, I am a "com- 
muter" a term that a good many New Yorkers jest 
about. However, I find it very comfortable and con- 
venient in the City across the Bay, and probably will 
make it my permanent abode. When I use the word 
"home," it is not what could be considered a most 
ideal condition. Ever since I have been on the Coast, 
I have lived in hotels. The word home is never com- 
plete unless a man can answer in the affirmative to 
your question No. 3. 

I have never done anything in politics because I 
believe under certain conditions one should stay away 
from politics as much as possible. I am in accord with 
the idea that everybody should be public spirited, but 
I believe that the people who should interest themselves 
in politics, are those who have already made successes 
in life and can devote a considerable time to the clean 
administration of affairs. I have no professional honors, 
nor have I had any particular ambitions to seek them. 
Neither have I established anything. 

In answer to your question regarding travel, I might 
say that on account of my occupation, I have covered 
as many miles as any human being could. I have visited 
and been in practically every City and State of any 
importance in this Union. I also traveled through 
Mexico, Canada and Alaska. Most of these trips were 
not for recreation, but were made on business. 

I have no particular plans for the future, except to 
try to make a success in my present business and also 
to establish out here a large and successful Motor 

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Truck Company. You are probably acquainted with 
a good many of my doings, due to your more or less, 
mostly less, visits on the Coast. 

Louis G. Henes. 

RAILWAY, INDUSTRIAL AND 
CONTRACTORS' EQUIPMENT 
MONADNOCK BUILDING 
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



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February 8, igi 3. 

T WILL give the following points in numerical order: 
* 1. Home address, 143 Willow Street, Brooklyn, 
N. Y., and Hoguet Point-Lake Mahopac, N. Y. 

Business address, Hoguet & Hafley Inc., 20 Vesey 
Street, New York City. 

2. Present occupation, President of Hoguet & Hafley 
Inc. — Advertising — 20 Vesey Street, New York City. 

3. Married, October 14, 1905. 

5. Business record of past ten years: 

Seven years managing head of the E. T. Howard 
Advertising Agency, having supervision of Waterman's 
Ideal Fountain Pen advertising and Bush Terminal 
Company advertising. 

November 191 1, established "Hoguet Advertising." 

Jan. 20, 191 3, Hoguet & Hafley Inc. absorbed "Hoguet 
Advertising." 

9. Traveled extensively purely for pleasure as follows: 

In Canada, through the Saguenay River, Quebec, 
Montreal, Thousand Islands and Toronto, through the 
Canadian Rockies to Vancouver; 

Through the United States, visiting the Pacific Coast 
from Seattle to Los Angles, Grand Canyon, Arizona 
and the middle states; 

Through Europe, visiting the British Isles and the 
Continent from Paris to Vienna and from Cologne to 
Zurich, and in fact, have done considerable traveling 
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10. As to the question of establishing any business, 
this has been answered under point No. 5 ; 

1 1 . Plans for the future are somewhat progressive in 
attending to the development of the advertising pro- 
fession; besides this I am interested in real estate de- 
velopment, not only at Hoguet Point, Lake Mahopac, 
but elsewhere. 

Henri P. L. Hoguet. 

HOGUET & HAFLEY INC. 

ADVERTISING 

20 VESEY STREET 
NEW YORK 



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April 23, 1913. 

rpHE main facts asked for in regard to my record 
^ during the past ten years are as follows: Home 
address, 144 North Eighth Avenue, Mount Vernon, 
N. Y. Business address, 7 East 42nd Street, New York 
City. I was married April 25, 1906, and my wife died in 
1907. I married again April 8, 191 2. Have one child, 
Mary Louise Farrington Holden, born, February 24, 
1907, Passaic, N. J. 

After graduating I spent five months as transitman in 
charge of a party on the boundary line survey between 
the United States and Canada in Montana and Idaho. 
For six months, in 1904, I was with Post and McCord, 
New York City, on design and detailing of steel construc- 
tion. From 1904 to 1910, on the Pennsylvania Railroad 
tunnel and terminal improvements in New York City 
on surveys, inspection, and design. In 1910, for three 
months, I was with Hering and Fuller, New York City, 
on design of water purification works. From 1910 to 
1912, I was connected with the Metropolitan Sewerage 
Commission of New York, making preliminary plans 
and studies for sewage disposal in the Metropolitan 
District of the city. From 191 2 until the present date, 
I have been with Noble and Woodard, Civil and Con- 
sulting Engineers, New York City, in charge of office 
and general consulting practice. I was elected an as- 

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sociate member of the American Society of Civil Engi- 
neers in 191 1. 

Charles A. Holden. 

NOBLE AND WOODARD 
7 EAST 42ND STREET 
NEW YORK CITY 



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April 28, 1 913. 

TTOME address, Rahway, N. J. Business address, 
* * 25 Broad Street, New York City. Present occu- 
pation, purchasing engineer American Trading Co., 
New York City. On September 25, 1907, I married 
Edith Fuller Torrey and have one daughter Elizabeth 
Thompson Hull, born, November 20, 1908. 

During the past ten years I have been employed as 
follows: From 1903 to 1906, erecting engineer and sales- 
man for Allis-Chalmers Co. 1907 to 1909, Assistant to 
General Manager, Fairbanks Morse Mfg. Co., at Beloit, 
Wis. 1 9 10 to present date with American Trading Co. 
I have taken no part in politics. I have not published 
anything and have had no professional honors. I have 
not traveled. 

A. B. Hull. 

AMERICAN TRADING CO. 
25 BROAD STREET 
NEW YORK CITY 



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May 12, 1 91 3. 

lVTY record such as it is, it must needs be short — as 
•*• ■*• short as the past ten years seem looking back on 
them now. 

Business address, 95 Liberty Street, and residence, 
436 Convent Avenue, New York City. I was married 
September 25, 1907, and the firm has declared one 
dividend, Miss Lucy Frances Jacoby, on October 23, 
1912. 

Business has been principally work, and plans for the 
future — more work. 

And that's about all there is to my history since last 
we were all together. 

Henry E. Jacoby. 

MECHANICAL ENGINEER 
95-97 LIBERTY STREET 
NEW YORK CITY 



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April 5, 1913. 

1V/TY professional career to date has been somewhat of 
-^ •*- a disappointment to me in that, whereas I had 
fondly hoped to get into the mining game as center 
rush, or as waterpail carrier at the very least, circum- 
stances have kept me among the rooters on the side lines. 

After satisfying the requirements of the Registrar's 
office in 1903 J, I spent three months at Eastman's 
Business College at Poughkeepsie, and then went to 
Kent county, New Brunswick, to be engineer with a 
small coal mine, under Mason T. Adams '02. The 
mine did not pay, so I returned to New York just in 
time to drop into a vancancy in the editorial staff of 
the Engineering and Mining Journal. While in this 
position I traveled a good deal, visiting mines in Penn- 
sylvania and the South; also had charge of volumes 13 
and 14 of their annual "Mineral Industry," to which 
I have contributed articles off and on ever since. 

Finding desk work too confining, I next joined the 
staff of Stillwell and Gladding, an old and eminent firm 
of analytical chemists, who hoped through my efforts 
to branch out into mining and metallurgical fields. 
During the next two years I made several trips to points 
in Colorado, Nevada, Vancouver Island, Mexico, New- 
foundland, and Pennsylvania; enjoyed riding on the 
cars, but did not learn much about mining. 

In 1908, Professor Munroe invited me to become In- 
structor in Mining at Columbia. The work is congenial, 
and I do not find it lacking in stimulus. I still make 

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occasional trips on mine examinations, but what I 
enjoy most are the visits we receive from the alumni, 
old and new, who have to pass through New York on 
their way from one quarter of the earth to another, and 
generally find time to drop up to the University. For 
the past two years I have been editor of the School of 
Mines Quarterly, and have tried hard to inject new life 
into it by expanding its news features, for the delectation 
of it owners, the Alumni. Was elected in 191 1 to 
Sigma Xi, but must confess that I do not feel at home 
among so many high-brows. 

Was married in June, 1905, to Edith C. Newby, of 
New York, and our home is now at 3920 Broadway. 

Edward K. Judd. 

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 
SCHOOL OF MINES 
NEW YORK CITY 



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June 23, 1 913. 

TV/J Y record since leaving college may be summarized as 
^ ■*• follows: Home address, Engineers' Club, 32 West 
40th Street, New York City. Business address, 105 
Chestnut Street, Newark, N. J. Present occupation, 
Manufacturing. Married? No. Done anything in 
politics? No. Published anything? No. Professional 
honors? None. Traveled? No. Established any 
business? Kellogg and Hill Company. 

J. Blake Kellogg. 

KELLOGG AND HILL COMPANY 
105 CHESTNUT STREET 
NEWARK, N. J. 



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May 5, 1913. 
I RESIDE at Hewlett, Long Island, and have been 
**■ employed as Chemist by the Department of Public 
Charities, Foot of East 26th Street, for the past five 
years, previous to that I was an assistant Chemist in 
the Department of Health, which position I obtained 
shortly after leaving college. 

Frederick Kenney. 

department of public charities 
of the city of new york 

GENERAL DRUG DEPARTMENT 

NEW YORK CITY 



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September 9, 1912. 

T WILL answer briefly the eleven questions: 1. Home 
■■• and Business address, New Almaden, Santa Clara 
Co., Cal. 2. Present Occupation, General Manager 
and Resident Director of the Quicksilver Mining Com- 
pany. 3. Married September 17, 1906. 4. Have no 
children. 5. Since graduating from The School of 
Mines in 1903, have been engaged in professional work, 
mostly mine operation in the Middle West, the West, 
and Mexico, generally representing Eastern or foreign 
corporations. 6. Have not been interested in politics. 

7. Have from time to time published such data as is 
ordinarily gathered in this profession in making reports 
or annual statements of properties under my charge. 

8. With regard to professional honors, will say that I 
am a member of the American Institute of Mining Engi- 
neers, Engineers' Club of San Francisco, National Geo- 
graphic Society, Mine Operators' Association, and the 
Graduate Society of The School of Mines. 9. Have 
traveled somewhat extensively throughout the Western 
States and Mexico. 10. Have not established any 
business other than incidental to my profession. 1 1 . My 
plans for the future are to make the best success of my 
chosen profession possible, under conditions which the 
future only will bring out. 

W. H. Landers. 

THE QUICKSILVER MINING COMPANY 
NEW ALMADEN, CAL. 

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February 12, 1913, 

A S to my activities during the past 10 years, I hereby 
-*■*■ submit a short sketch of my personal history. 

After leaving college, I held the following positions : 

June, 1903 to November 1903. Structural Steel 
Draftsman, with Menro Purdy and Henderson, Struc- 
tural Engineers. 

November, 1903 to September, 1905. Draftsman in 
the Bureau of Construction and Repairs of the Depart- 
ment of Docks and Ferries of the City of New York. 

September, 1905 to date. Transitman and now 
Assistant Engineer for the Board of Water Supply, 
of the City of New York, and the Construction of the 
Catskill Aqueduct. 

I published the following articles: 

Stadia Surveys for the Catskill Aqueduct, Engineer- 
ing News, September 3, 1908. 

Effect of the Inclination of the Stadia Rod upon 
Stadia Distances, School of Mines Quarterly, November, 
1909. 

A few notes on Irrigation, School of Mines Quarterly, 
November, 1910. 

I am not married, have not taken active part in poli- 
tics, have received no professional honors, have not 
travelled, not established a business, and have no ma- 
ture plans for the future. 

Boris Levitt. 

peekskill, n. y. 

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SMALLWOOD, JR., 
CLASS BOY OF SCIENCE 



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February 28, 1913. 

HP HE information requested omitting criminal refer- 
A ences. 

1. Home address, 2133 Webster Street Oakland, Cal. 

2. Business address, Rial to Building, San Francisco, 
Cal. 

3. Occupation, Pacific Coast Manager, Gould Storage 
Battery Company. 

4. Married, October, 191 1. No children. 

5. Have been working for the last ten years. 

6. No politics. 

7. No publications. 

8. No professional honors. 

9. Traveled more than I wanted. 

10. Established no business of my own. 

11. My plans for the future are dependent on con- 
tingency. 



12. Avocation, golf. 



ELECTRICAL ENGINEER 
20I RIALTO BUILDING 
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. 



Ogden W. Lillard. 



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April 7, 1913. 

AS requested, I submit the following information 
-*** regarding my activity since leaving college. 

Home address, 20 Clermont Avenue, Port Chester, 
N. Y. Business address, 160 Broadway, New York City. 
I was married August 14, 1906. I have no children. 

My work since leaving Columbia has been briefly as 
follows: with the United States Boundary Survey, 
Rocky Mountains General municipal engineering in my 
home town, Port Chester, N. Y., and vicinity. Railroad 
location surveys in southern Indiana with Prof. E. B. 
Lovell. Pier and bulkhead construction, East River, 
Bronx, New York City. Since 1907 with the Lawyers 
Title Insurance and Trust Company, 160 Broadway, 
New York City, city surveyor as principal assistant to 
Prof. Earl B. Lovell, Manager of the Survey Depart- 
ment, (about 80 men in the department). 

My present plans are to remain with the above com- 
pany and live at Port Chester, where I have just built 
a new home. 

Elwood H. Loder. , 

LAWYERS TITLE INSURANCE & TRUST CO. 
160 BROADWAY 
NEW YORK CITY 



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April 27, 1913. 

HP HE following are answers to some of the questions. 
A (1) My home address 243 is Delaware Avenue, 
Albany, N. Y. I am at present with the New York 
State Barge Canal at Albany with title of Bridge De- 
signer. 

(2) I am married (July 25, 1907), and have two 
children, Ethel Lillian born in New York City, May 30, 
1907, and Thomas Walter born in New York City, 
July 26, 191 1. 

(3) I haven't done much during the last ten years 
but work, haven't published anything, haven't estab- 
lished any business, haven't mixed in politics. I have 
travelled some in Mexico. 

W. S. McDowell. 

243 DELAWARE AVENUE 
ALBANY, N. Y. 



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May 12, 1 91 3. 

TV/T Y HISTORY since leaving Columbia is rather brief. 
^ A I was associated as chemist with the American 
Sugar Refining Company, Jersey City, New Jersey, 
for a number of years. I was the acting head chemist 
in the absence of the much older head chemist. I was 
sent to the Alma Beet Sugar factory, Alma, Michigan, 
and to the Cairo Beet Sugar factory, Cairo, Michigan 
as head chemist for seven campaigns, studying at the 
same time the various phases of the industry. I made 
a tour of inspection of the six factories of the Michigan 
Sugar Company and of most of the factories of the 
Great Western Sugar Company in Colorado. In 1908, 
or 1909 (I forget which), I was sent to a convention of 
sugar chemists held in Fort Collins, Colorado, the 
object of which was to agree on the best methods of 
analysis. I represented there the American Sugar 
Refining Company and the Michigan Sugar Company. 
I flatter myself that some of my ideas were adopted 
and are still in use. 

I am at present head chemist for the Fuel-Engineer- 
ing Company 59 Pearl Street, New York City, and also 
lecture on chemistry in St. Peter's College, Jersey City, 
N. J., where Mr. Tumulty, President Wilson's secre- 
tary, was educated. 

Cyril B. McLaughlin. 



2040 SEVENTH AVENUE 
NEW YORK CITY 



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April 25, 1913. 

TTERE are the answers to the questions. 

-■* *■* Home address, 1044 Summit Street, Hancock, 

Michigan. 

Business address, care of Hancock Consolidatded 
Mining Company, Hancock, Mich. 

Date of marriage to Elvira Warner Booth, Chicago, 
111., May 28, 1906. 

Children, Bruce, born September 22, 1912, at Chi- 
cago, 111. 

During the last ten years I have been here in the 
Copper Country following my profession of Mining 
Engineer having been Assistant Engineer with the 
Quincy Mining Company and at present am Chief 
Engineer of the Hancock Consolidated Mining Com- 
pany and the Oneco Mining Company both of Han- 
cock, Mich. 

Have done nothing in politics. 

Published a few articles in the technical magazines 
on mining subjects. 

No professional honors. 

Travelled through Cuba, Jamaica, Panama Canal 
Zone and Costa Rica. 

Have established no business and expect to follow my 
profession in the future. 

C. W. MacDougall. 

HANCOCK, MICH. 



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February 5, 1913. 

WILL answer your questions as follows: 
1. Home and business address, South Orange, 
N.J. 

2. Occupation, manager and owner of the Marco 
Garage. 

3. Not married yet, 31 years old, still poor, and getting 
bald, so chances are rather slim. 

4. Have no children. 

5. Principal jobs have been: 3! years with Wm. 
Sellers & Company in Philadelphia, as general handy 
man, salesman, trouble man on the road, as well as doing 
all their injector experimental work; 4? years manager 
of The Marco Garage. 

6. Have done nothing in politics and would not be 
president or a policeman if I got the chance. 

7. Have published nothing of importance except 
yards of advertising matter. 

8. Have absolutely no professional honors, but have 
patented a self-lighting automobile lamp that nobody 
wants. 

9. Have traveled through all the Eastern and Southern 
states and Canada on business. Have been to Europe 
once as chauffeur, once as engineer, and once as gentle- 
man of leisure. 

10. Have established The Marco Garage, a modest 
establishment, but it provides me with food, clothing, 
shelter, cigarettes, joy rides, and the few pleasures 
that usually fall to the lot of the average wage earner. 

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11. Plans for the future are to get rich quick. As I 
intend to be honest whatever my business, I figure it 
will take at least 100 years more of hard work. If you 
run across a rich spinster with a grave yard cough and 
matrimonially inclined please notify. 

Franklin Martin. 

the marco garage 
south orange 
new jersey 



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March 26, 1913. 

J HAVE been associated with the International Bank- 
■*• ing Corporation in New York, Hongkong, Canton, 
and Peking since graduation in 1902, and my present 
plans will I hope see me in New York some time next 
winter on furlough. 

With best wishes, 

Yours very truly, 

D. W. Menocal. 

INTERNATIONAL BANKING CORPORATION 
PEKING, CHINA 



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February 21, 191 3. 

T SHALL attempt to answer your eleven " sister 
** questions" to the best of my ability. 

1. Home Address, 714 West 179th Street, New York 
City. 

2. Business Address, 102 14th Street, Long Island 
City. 

3. Present Occupation, more or less of a consultant 
in the chemistry of oil products and allied hydrocarbons. 

3. Married? Still care and fancy free. 

5. Don't know of any. 

6. Nearly two years at Williamsport, Pa., entertained 
by the Mountain and Pennsylvania Dutch girls, and 
doing my best to keep up with the speed of the town; 
and incidentally was Chief Chemist and later Assistant 
Superintendent at the Susquehanna Dye Works in that 
city. 

During the next two years I was in New York City, 
trying to get enough time away from my duties as 
President of the "Own Boss Club," member of the 
7th Regiment etc., to do a little work at my laboratory 
at 181 Pearl Street where the sign on the door read 
" Analytical and Consulting Chemist." 

At the end of two years deponent decided that a regular 
pay day was to be preferred to many rainbows, and be- 
came Chemist to The Pratt Works, Long Island City 
of the Standard Oil Company and later Chief Chemist 
of the Standard Oil Company of New York, and in- 
cidentally became aquainted with the joys of Green- 

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point. I decided after five years with the Trust that 
if I stayed any longer that they might want to keep me 
for life, and besides that, Greenpoint was so deadly 
far from the Chemists' Club that it was almost impossi- 
ble to reach the club from the works decently sober. 
So deponent quit, received his five year medal, and started 
the present game, which, thank you, is going fine. 

7. Not much. 

8. One or two book reviews ; otherwise nil. 

9. None. 

10. Lived on Fort Washington Heights and worked 
in Greenpoint for five years. Otherwise, no. 

11. Don't know whether you would call this a busi- 
ness or not. 

12. To take a day off tomorrow, and after that keep 
on along the same lines if it takes all summer. 

Gail Mersereau. 

consulting chemist 
laboratory: 102 14TH street 

LONG ISLAND CITY 



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April 28, 1 913. 

\ FTER graduation I spent two years, more or less, 
- **' in general engineering on the Pennsylvania Ter- 
minal and tunnels, work on which was just opening up in 
the spring of 1904. In 1906, the city was draining the 
market of civil engineers for the new Catskill Aqueduct, 
and seeing here an opportunity to better myself I ac- 
cepted an appointment as assistant engineer, which I 
held until a year ago when I determined to go in business 
for myself. 

At present I am connected with a company engaged 
in putting a patented engineering accessory on the market, 
and also with a general building and contracting company. 

I was married in February, 1909. Of honors or chil- 
dren I have had none, nor have I published anything or 
dabbled in politics beyond dodging jury duty. My 
travels were not worthy of mention but I have seen 
the Rainey African hunt pictures three times. 

As to the future, I am inclined to follow Dr. Osier's 
most recent advice — to live only in the twenty-four 
hours of each day, forgetting the past and remaining 
oblivious to the future. 

Ten years is too short a time to produce anything 
worth speaking of, except for a favored few who bear 
their fruit early in life. Call on me at the end of the 
next decade or so and perhaps I can do better for you in 
all departments. 

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My home address is 23 East 83rd Street, and business 
address, 9 Church Street, both New York City. 

J. Leo Murphy. 

9 CHURCH STREET 
NEW YORK CITY 



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HP EN years ago I set out with the stern determina- 

■ tion to climb to the top of the ladder of fame and 
fortune and tie myself there. It seems, however, that 
the idea was not original, for when I went out into the 
vineyard there was a big crowd of laborers ahead of me. 
At the foot of the ladder there was a regular old lunch 
room crush — everyone trying to push ahead and get 
as much as possible for nothing. 

Sometime after this, in 1907, when fame and fortune 
were only about 27 rounds above me (it was an extension 
ladder and they moved it up and down) we decided, 
as my income promised to be large enough for two to 
count, to get married. 

In July, 1908, our son, Richard Stephens, was born, 
and, just as soon as he is old enough, I intend to teach 
him how not to write Spec, "news" and Jester "jokes. " 
In 19 10 we moved to an almost city in Connecticut, 
and for two years all my spare time (not including busi- 
ness hours) was devoted to reading the reports of the 
Department of Agriculture and trying to raise 57 differ- 
ent kinds of vegetables in a 2 x 4 garden. In fact, I 
became a real farmer, and observed the Saturday night 
tub quite regularly. 

On returning to New York, just before 191 3, I took 
up my present occupation, and since then have been 
very successful in making plans for the future. If, 
therefore, any friend is manufacturing something that 
the public will not buy, I will plan an advertising 

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campaign that will induce every child in the land to 
cry for it. 

My home is at 321 West 106 Street, New York City, 
and all business letters sent to that address will be for- 
warded to me— for my " office' ■ is my home and vice 
versa. 

Harold S. Osborne. 



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February ig, 1913. 

T) EGARDING some of the points covered in your 
A ^ suggestions as to my history since leaving College. 

1. My home address; 96 Clendenny Avenue, busi- 
ness address in care of Wenner & Ostrom, Hudson 
County Bank Building, 243 Washington Street, Jersey 
City, N. J. 

2. My present occupation is practicing Law being 
an attorney and counsellor at law of the State of New 
Jersey and a member of the firm of Wenner & Ostrom, 
Attorneys and Counsellors at Law, Hudson County 
Bank Building, 243 Washington Street, Jersey City, 
N.J. 

3. I was on November 7, 1906, married to Anna B. 
Klussmann of Jersey City. 

4. I have two children, Charles Warren Ostrom, Jr., 
born August 20, 1907, and Anna Marie Ostrom born 
September 19, 1909. 

5. I studied law until February, 1906, when I passed 
the bar examination and became an attorney at law 
of the State of New Jersey, at that time and until No- 
vember 1, 1906, I was managing clerk for the firm of 
Hudspeth, Puster & Carey when in that time the firm 
of Wenner & Ostrom was formed. 

6. I have taken active interest in politics and was 
delegate to the Gubernatorial Convention 19 10, which 
nominated Woodrow Wilson as candidate for governor 

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of the State of New Jersey and was at that convention 
the Chairman of the committee of organization. 

7. I have not published anything at all. 

8. My professional honors were stated as above under 
question 2, that is to say I was admitted to the bar 
of New Jersey, February, 1906, and was in February, 
191 1, admitted as a Counsellor at Law and appointed 
a Master in Chancery of the State of New Jersey. 

9. I have travelled quite extensively, both on busi- 
ness and pleasure. In 1909 I made a business trip to 
the Black Hills Mining country in South Dakota; in 
1 910 I was sent to Goteberg, Sweden and incidentally 
visited Holland, Germany, England, France and Belgium 
as well as Sweden. My trip at that time covered a 
large part of the Continent of Europe. In 1912, I was 
sent by the Orphan's Court here to San Francisco, Cali- 
fornia, to take testimony in an important case; at that 
time I visited all of the Western States and especially 
the mining districts of Utah, the Black Hills, South 
Dakota and the Cripple Creek district in Colorado. 

10. I have established in the business, as above 
stated a member of the firm of Wenner & Ostrom, 243 
Washington Street, Jersey City, N. J. 

11. My plans for the future are to practice law both 
in New Jersey and New York, where I shall be admitted 
in the near future, and to take active political interest 
in the affairs of the state and government. 

Having answered all of your questions, I wish to say 
that whatever small measure of success has been mine 
I attribute to a large extent to the magnificent and 
thorough grounding that I received in the Columbia 

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School of Mines. Although I do not follow my profes- 
sion as a Mining Engineer, yet in the practice of law 
the logical and mathematical training obtained in the 
Technical School has been invaluable to me. 

Chas. W. Ostrom. 

WENNER & OSTROM 

ATTORNEYS AT LAW 
SOLICITORS AND 
MASTERS IN CHANCERY 

243 WASHINGTON STREET 
JERSEY CITY, N. J. 



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April 24, 1 9 13. 

1 NOW live at 1032 Jackson Avenue, Bronx, and hold 

forth otherwise in the new Municipal Building, 

working for the Department of Bridges, New York City. 

Although I graduated an E. E., Fate led me into C. 
E. work, especially Bridge Construction. 

I married on October 27, 1907, a woman of rare excel- 
lence and begot two sons, Alan Montague, 1909, and 
Donald William, 191 1. 

After graduation I started draughting with the 
Metropolitan Street R. R. Co. and evenings did electri- 
cal work on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. 
I next did inspection work in the Navy Yard under my 
classmate O. W. Lillard. Detailing steel work was my 
next step, reinforced concrete design and supervision 
followed and I wound up with the Department of 
Bridges — six years ago. 

I have never gone in for politics nor reached out for 
professional honors. 

I have lately become interested in aeronautics and 
have published a few treatises relative to the building 
of model aeroplanes. 

Plans for the future are not well enough defined to 
write of. As the boys grow up I will try to get nearer 
country life so that they can benefit by living closer to 
nature. 

Otherwise I am very happy with my friends and 

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family who bid fair to love me eternally. I feel younger 
as the years roll on and know that my life is and will 
be worth while. 

Montague Palmer. 

city of new york 
department of bridges 
municipal building 
borough of manhattan 



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March 14, 1913. 

^TOT yet dead, but hardly resident in one place long 
•^ enough to call it home. Regarding the bit of 
history wanted for the 1903 class book, I shall be able to 
state my achievements briefly and in short space. 

Among honors won or merited I can claim none. I 
wish that I might claim the honor of having served our 
class well as president. I know that it is customary in 
some classes for the man elected president to hold that 
honor for life, and I think this is very fitting where this 
man is resident in the country, especially when he is near 
the city of his university and when he has been able to 
properly serve his class. 

Were I at home I am sure I could do much, and lend 
enthusiasm to the cause of old friends, but for five years 
I have been held on this side of the Atlantic and with 
practically no time for contemplating and carrying out 
the programme which should properly originate with the 
president. I shall send to "clink" Moen a short letter 
resigning the office and ask him to present it at the proper 
time. . . . 

My best regards to the committee and, if you have any 
class gathering before the big meeting, please express 
my sincere loyalty and affection for our class of 1903 S 
and every single member of it. 

I have a fine boy just turned the five year mark this 
month. He wears blue and white when dressed up and 
Columbia will in good time be his Alma Mater. 

My formal record is about as follows: Home address, 

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Highwood, Helensburgh, Scotland. Business address, 
care of John Broan and Co., Ltd., Clydebank, Scotland. 
Occupation, Engine works manager in charge of all 
machinery design. Married, June 10, 1907. Children, 
Stephen Thatcher Pigott, Nancy Patterson Pigott and 
Eleanor Hayes Pigott. 

At graduation I entered the employ of the International 
Curtis Marine Turbine Co. and, as assitant to Mr. 
Charles G. Curtis, I developed the marine turbine. In 
March, 1908, I was sent to Great Britain in connection 
with the sale of patent rights. This accomplished, it 
was arranged that for a period of from four to six months 
I must help in the starting of construction of Curtis 
turbines in that country. Developments have made it 
desirable that I should continue my residence in Great 
Britain and it is now five years since I first came to this 
land. In this time I have directed the design of machin- 
ery, much of which design I have originated, for the 
following ships: 23 destroyers, 5 cruisers, 7 battleships, 
3 battle cruisers and 5 passenger merchant ships. Among 
these ships are the largest and most powerful in the world 
and totaling to the amount of one million, two hundred 
thousand horse-power, mostly British ships and some 
for foreign powers. 

I have done nothing in politics. I have published 
nothing, and have no professional honors to my credit. 
Certain turbine patents have been awarded to my in- 
ventions. On business and holidays I have traveled in 
Great Britain and Ireland extensively, Holland, Belgium, 
France, Germany and Russia. 

I have established no commercial business connec- 
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and Co., Ltd. It is my intention when I have concluded 
my obligations here to return to America and shall hope 
to continue in my profession of Mechanical and Marine 
Engineer. 

S. J. Pigott. 

HIGHWOOD 
HELENSBURGH, SCOTLAND 



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February 13, igi 3. 

T AM glad to give you the following information: 

Home address : 70 Chapman Street, East Cleveland, Ohio. 
Business address : 318 Rockefeller Building, Cleveland, Ohio. 
Present occupation: Manager, Pratt & Whitney small tool 
stores in Ohio. 

Married: June 6th, 1907. 

During the past ten years would say that I have done 
nothing whatsoever in politics, nor have I published 
anything; neither have professional honors come my 
way. What travelling I have done has been purely in 
connection with my business, having been connected 
with the Pratt & Whitney Company since graduation. 

I trust this is the information you are after and hope 
that the Decennial celebration will prove a success. 
I regret that I cannot attend. I would like very much 
to subscribe for one of the books when they are published. 

Chas. W. Pond. 

PRATT & WHITNEY COMPANY 

MACHINE TOOLS 

ROCKEFELLER BUILDING 
CLEVELAND, OHIO 



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March 26, 191 3. 
T AM living at 1 Lexington Avenue and my office 
A address is 156 Fifth Avenue. I am Associate Secre- 
tary of Yale in China. As you know I have been teach- 
ing Physics and Chemistry in China during much of 
the time since graduation and at present am helping 
in the home end of building up our little college at 
Changsha, the Capital of the Hunan province. There 
are eight Americans and seven Chinese on the teaching 
staff and about ninety students. 

On December 7, 191 2, I married Miss E. M. Ash- 
hurst of Philadelphia. 

I have not had any book published, but have written 
a number of articles on the Weights and Measures of 
China. This work has been in connection with an effort 
to establish a uniform system of weights and Measures 
in that country. 

Yes, I have had to travel in going and coming from 
China and have journeyed via the Pacific, Siberia and 
India. I hope to continue in this educational work 
for China. 

Howard Richards, Jr. 

yale in china 

NEW YORK OFFICE 

I56 FIFTH AVENUE 



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February 6, 1913. 

"V/T Y history during the past ten years may be set forth 
■*■ by the following statements. Home address, 

Hackensack, N. J. Business address, 11 34 Broadway, 
New York City. At present I am president of the Crex 
Carpet Company. Married July 14, 1903; no children. 
I have been engaged in the insurance and carpet business. 
As regards politics, I was a member of the Bergen County 
Board of Freeholders for two terms. Professional honors 
No. I have traveled in the United States, Europe, 
and Bermuda. I established an insurance business 
which is still running. My plans for the future are 
principally to "keep on the job." My club affiliations 
are as follows: President, Union League Club of New 
Jersey; Yale Club; New York Athletic Club; Hackensack 
Golf Club; Haworth Club; Carpet Club of Philadelphia; 
Treasurer and Director, Carpet Club of New York; 
Tuscan Lodge, Englewood; Scottish Rite, New York; 
Republican Club, New York. 

Myron W. Robinson. 

CREX CARPET COMPANY 
1 134 BROADWAY 
NEW YORK CITY 



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April 7, iqi 3. 

T AM anxious to have my name in the Decennial 
**■ Book among the other notables, but know little of 
a flattering nature to write you about myself. 

My home is Far Rockaway, L. I., my business ad- 
dress is 20 Broad Street, New York City. Unmarried. 
I have been manager of the New York Stock Exchange 
firm of Sartorius and Einstein for the past five years, 
and my future plans are to continue with banking and 
brokerage business. 

BURRIL RUSKY. 

BROAD STREET 
NEW YORK CITY 



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May 12, 1913. 

13URSUANT to the insistent demand regarding my 
*■ raison d'Ure during the past decade I submit the 
following: Home address at this writing, 875 Hunts 
Point Avenue, New York City. Business address, care 
of Marwick, Mitchell, Peat and Co., 79 Wall Street, 
New York City. Not married as yet. 

I spent my first four years acquiring general engineer- 
ing experience on factory and power plant construction 
and installation. My time was divided between the 
Weston Electrical Instrument Co., Newark, N. J., 
Crane Co. and Union Metallic Cartridge Co. of Bridge- 
port, Conn., and New York Central Railroad, at New 
York. During the past six years I have been engaged in 
factory cost accounting and production, engineering, 
appraisals and physical reports with Marwick, Mitchell, 
Peat and Co. 

I have traveled extensively in this country on various 
projects for the firm, a few of the more recent installations 
being those of the J. G. Brill Car Co., the Navy Yards 
at Boston, Brooklyn and Philadelphia, the Buick Motor 
Car Company's plants at Flint, Mich, and Jackson, 
Mich., and at this writing the plant of the Yale and 
Towne Mfg. Co., at Stamford, Conn. 

One's recompense in this migratory profession in semi- 
public service, apart from the broadening association 
with men and methods, lies in realizing the beneficial 
results accruing to the operation of a successful installa- 
tion. 

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My present bachelor state must perforce remain 
undisturbed for a time, until the way seems clear to main- 
tain a home in one place for at least half the year. But I 
refuse to meditate upon this subject. 

Ph. C. Sanguinetti. 

CARE OF MARWICK, MITCHELL, PEAT & CO. 
79 WALL STREET 
NEW YORK CITY 



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April 27, 1 91 3. 

STATISTICS of my life are about as follows: Home 
^ address, 1107 South 13th Street, Birmingham, Ala. 
Business address, 939 Brown Marx Building, Birmingham, 
Ala. Occupation, assistant chief engineer of the Ala- 
bama Power Company, a company following out a plan 
for the complete development of the water powers Ala- 
bama. Married, October 5, 1907. Have two daughters, 
Helen, born November 23, 1908, and Marjorie, born May 
25, 1910. 

From 1903 to 1909, I worked on design, preliminary 
alignment, and construction of the Pennsylvania Tun- 
nels, East River Division, New York City, except six 
months in 1905 which were spent on railroad location 
in Indiana. From 1909 to August, 1912, I was employed 
by Noble and Woodard as office engineer in consulting 
practice. From August, 191 2, to the present date 
assistant chief engineer on water power and steam plants, 
design and construction for the Alabama Power Company. 
I have taken no part in politics. I will not commit 
myself as regards the future, but I expect to follow water 
power engineering. 

Edward L. Sayers. 

939 BROWN MARX BUILDING 
BIRMINGHAM, ALA. 



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June 23, 1 91 3. 

f|^HE reason for my not answering the first inquiry 
* for data for the class history was the loss of the 
letter and address in a raid made on us by the rebels in 
February. The following, however, will give you some 
idea of my activitities. 

Graduated 1903 as a mining engineer. 1903, Miner, 
assayer, engineer and bookkeeper, Ptarmigan Mines, 
Wilmer, B. C. 1904, Miner, mucker, timberman, and 
assayer, U. S. S. R. & M. Co. Centennial-Eureka Mine, 
Eureka, Utah. 1 905-1 906, Chief engineer, and in charge 
of experimental concentrator, Imperial Copper Co., 
Silverbell, Ariz. 1 907-1 908, Mill superintendent, Grana- 
dena Mining Co., Santa Barbara, Chih., Mexico. 1908, 
Foreman Cyanide Plant Standard Consolidated Mine, 
Bodie, Cal. 1909, Examinations in California, Arizona 
and Sonora. 1909-1911, Manager Montezuma Mines 
of Costa Rica, Montezuma, C. R. 1912-1913, Superin- 
tendent for American Smelting and Refining Co. of the 
Tiro General Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico. 

On March 11, 191 1, I married Grace Chandler Diehl 
and have had one daughter, Grace Ellen Shaw, born 
October 8, 1912. 

I have contributed the following articles to the various 
technical magazines: Milling Practice at the Granadena 
Mill, Engineering and Mining Journal, October 5, 1907. 
The Graiiadena Mines, Mining and Scientific Press, 
September 19, 1908. Hinds Consolidated Mines, Mexico, 
Mining and Scientific Press, October 31, 1908. Opera- 

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tion and Production of the Congress Mine, Mining 
World, February 22, 1909. The Standard Consolidated 
Cyanide Mill, Engineering and Mining Journal, March 6, 
1909. Mining and Milling in Tombstone District, 
Arizona, Mining World, March 29, 1909. The Imperial 
Copper Company's Mines, Arizona, Mining World, 
April 3, 1909. The Sasco Smelter and Power Plant, 
Sasco, Arizona, Mining World, April 17, 1909. Hinds 
Consolidated, Los Angeles Mining Review, May 22, 1909. 
Ore Dressing Practice, Los Angeles Mining Review, 
June 26, July 3, July 10, July 17, and July 24, 1909. 
Review of Modern Cyanide Practice in United States 
and Mexico, Transactions American Institute of Mining 
Engineers, September, 1909. Notes on the Pioche 
Mining District, Nevada, Engineering and Mining Jour- 
nal, September 18, 1909. Cost Distribution at the 
Montezuma Mines, Mining World, September 3, 1910. 
Mining Methods, Montezuma Mines C. R., Mining 
World, October 8, 1910. Mines and Mills of Montezuma 
Mines C. R., Engineering and Mining Journal, October 
8, 1 910. Mining Investments, Los Angeles Mining 
Review, December, 19 10. Recent Cyanide Practice at 
the Montezuma Mines, Mining and Scientific Press, 
January 28, 191 1. Mine Sampling, Mining Magazine, 
December, 191 1. Some Notes on Porcupine, Engineer- 
ing and Mining Journal, December 23, 191 1. Filing 
Engineering Notes for Ready Reference, Mining World, 
January 13, 1912. Data of the World's Principal Mines, 
Engineering and Mining Journal, January 13, 191 2. 
Data of the World's Principal Mines, Engineering and 
Mining Journal, January 11, 191 3. A system of Mining 

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Warehouse Records, Mining World, February 22, 19 13. 
Time Keeping System in a Mexican Mine, Mining World, 
March 8, 1913. 

S. F. Shaw. 

NATIONAL METALLURGICAL CO. 

CHARCAS UNIT 

CHARCAS, S. L. P., MEXICO 



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February II, IQ13. 

T TRUST that there is no suspicion that I am one of 
* those who "have been down and out," and, if so, 
I deny the implication. If I ever was down, I was not 
out. Now, as to personal history, I hate to talk about 
myself, but since it is in the interests of posterity (who 
probably won't care a damn) I suppose I shall have to 
give my native modesty a vacation, and tell the whole 
truth about what a worthy grad I am. What? So here 
goes. 

(1) 617 Walnut Avenue, Syracuse, N. Y., Syracuse 
University. Summer address, Chadwick, N. J. (2) As- 
sociate Professor of Experimental Engineering, College 
of Applied Science, Syracuse University. In charge 
of the laboratories. Commercial testing, materials 
and machines. Consulting Engineering. (3) November 
26, 1902. (4) Hugh Molleson Smallwood, Oct. 25, 1903, 
Perth Amboy, N. J. Class Baby — I have a loving cup 
from the class to prove it. (5) One-third of the time I 
worked, one- third I slept, one- third I played, the bal- 
ance I devoted to eating. Of the work, the first four 
years were spent in machine shops and drafting rooms, 
the rest at my present work, which includes various lines 
of research, literary work, and other activities, too 
wearisome to mention, which are merely effervescent 
ebullitions of gray matter that might be characterized 
as "technical brain-storms." The sleeping was ac- 
complished in a plain brass bed, mostly, and, though a 
waste of time, has been mighty comfortable; but oc- 

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casionally I have done this trick less comfortably, as 
on the tool carriage of a thirty-foot lathe with a boiler 
in the process of making at my side, or as on the four- 
inch deck of a twelve-foot sneak box, the waves of a 
muddy and musk-ratty deep lapping around me. The 
play has been mostly achieved on the friendly shore of 
the Atlantic Ocean, off Barnegat, where I have a heavenly 
little cottage and a hell of a loaf in the summer. The 
eating has been done immediately after the announce- 
ment of meals, and, otherwise, whenever anyone has 
invited me. (6) Nothing doing in politics. (7) I have 
published a slew of articles on various technical and 
educational subjects and I hope to thunder that some- 
body has read some of them besides myself, the editors, 
and the proofreaders. At present engaged on a book 
on Experimental Engineering. (8) Modesty, crushed 
to earth, rises again, and forbids me to state. (9) Not 
when I could help it. (10) See answer No. 2. (11) That 
depends upon the future — otherwise, they are along the 
same lines as herein set down. 

(12) Remarks. No criminal record as yet. Dis- 
position has been sweetened with the passage of time, 
and might be called sunny. 

Anything else of a biographical nature that I can fur- 
nish, such as what kind of coffee I like and whether I 
am getting bald and who my dentist is, I shall be happy 
to supply with suitable elaborations. Such is Fame. 

Julian C. Smallwood. 

COLLEGE OF APPLIED SCIENCE 
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 
SYRACUSE, N. Y. 

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March 11, 1913. 

"V/f Y home address is 3540 Park Place, N. W., Washing- 
^ -■■ ton, D. C. My business address is at the Patent 
Office in this city where I am an assistant examiner. 
I have been married since September of last year. This 
answers the question regarding children, does it not? 
Since 1903, I have been with the General Electric Com- 
pany, Interborough Railway Company, and New York 
Central Lines, leaving the last named organization at 
the time of the general holiday in December, 1907, and 
coming to Washington in July, 1908, enjoying, if not 
deserving, a vacation in the meantime. As to politics, 
before coming here, there was no time for such a subject 
even as a matter of conversation and until lately, political 
activity on the part of a Federal employee has not been 
countenanced. As an author, I am still unknown. 
(The apparent need of revision in this letter will be 
sufficient explanation.) Professional honors — well, I 
have found time to study law at a local institution, the 
National University Law School, and be admitted to 
practice before the courts of the District but it requires 
some imagination to regard that as professional honors 
for one who studied engineering. I am well acquainted 
with the stations between New York and here but there 
my knowledge of foreign countries ends. 

R. W. Smith. 

PATENT OFFICE 
WASHINGTON, D. C. 

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February p, 1913. 

COME of the following may be of interest. 

^ Home address, 135 Madison Avenue, New York. 

Also 201 Washington Park, Brooklyn. 

Business address, care Carrere and Hastings, Archi- 
tects, 275 Fifth Avenue, New York. 

Not married. 

Published nothing. 

Have done nothing in politics. 

Upon graduation, I traveled around the world, visit- 
ing Japan, China, Java, Burma, India, etc., and ended 
up in Paris. Continued architectural studies there, 
and in July, 1905, entered the ficole des Beaux Arts. 
Followed the regular course in architecture there, re- 
ceiving several medals, and in November, 1908, received 
my diplome from the French Government. During 
those years I traveled extensively, in France, Spain, 
Italy, Germany, Switzerland and England. In January, 
1909, I returned to New York and worked in the offices 
of W. W. Bosworth and John R. Pope and since Novem- 
ber, 1910, have been with Carrere & Hastings (architects 
of the Public Library, etc.) In 1910, I spent five months 
abroad, visiting Dalmatia, Montenegro, Bosnia, Ger- 
many, etc. ; and I have just returned from a four months' 
trip in Algeria, Tunisia and Italy. 

Am a member of the Columbia University Club, 
University Club, Society of Beaux Arts Architects, 
Societe des Architects Dipl6mes par le Gouvernement. 

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I expect to continue for another year or more with 
Carrere & Hastings before opening my own office. 

Shepherd Stevens. 

135 madison avenue 
new york city 



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New York, August 25, IQ13. 

TVT Y history for the last ten years has been so uneven t- 
^ ■*• ful that I have long hesitated to record it. I 
have done nothing in politics or literature, have had no 
honors bestowed on me, have not traveled, established 
no business and have learned not to make plans for the 
future. Also I am unmarried and have no children, 
Thank Heaven! For the first two items: my home ad- 
dress is 147 4th Street, New Brighton, Sta'ten Island, 
and my business address, The Parson Manufacturing 
Company, Singer Building, New York City. Soon after 
graduation I entered the service of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad as a special apprentice and remained with them 
until the panic of 1907. Since then I have been in the 
drafting rooms of a number of firms including the Otis 
Elevator Company, Tide Water Oil Company, Atlantic 
Vehicle Company and Robins Conveying Belt Company. 
I was also engineer in charge of construction for the Gris- 
com Spencer Company, and laid out and superintended 
the construction of a plant for manufacturing CO 2 . 
While this is a wide experience it does not make very 
exciting reading in a class book — possibly in the next 
ten years I shall have done something more deserving 
of record. 

Mason A. Stone, Jr. 

PARSON MANUFACTURING COMPANY 
SINGER BUILDING 

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March 20, IQ13. 

A FTER graduation I spent three additional years 
** *" at the University during which time I was As- 
sistant in Metallurgy and also studied in several of the 
Departments of Science. 

In 1906 after taking my degree as Doctor of Philos- 
ophy, I entered the employ of the International Nickel 
Company, Bayonne, New Jersey, where I have remained, 
first, as Chief of Testing Department, Orford Copper 
Company; then as Superintendent, Monel Metal Manu- 
facturing Company, and finally as Superintendent 
Monel Metal Department, The International Nickel 
Company. 

I was married in 191 1 and live at 387 Clinton Street, 
Brooklyn, New York. 

John F. Thompson. 

THE INTERNATIONAL NICKEL COMPANY 

MONEL METAL DEPARTMENT 

BAYONNE, N. J. 



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April 28, 1 91 3. 

TTAVING been tardy about sending you my history, 
•*--■■ I send this eleventh hour epistle: Home address, 
Rye, N. Y. Business address, 2 Wall Street, New York 
City. Occupation, with Kelly and Wallace, Brokers. 
On October 27, 1905, I married Miss Frances Cutler 
Bagley. Have two children, Esther Cutler Bagley 
Wallace and Susanne Bagley Wallace. 

I entered the banking and brokerage office of J. H. 
Parker and Company in 190 1. I was a member of the 
New York Cotton Exchange from 1905 to 1909. In 
1907, I became a member of the New York Stock Ex- 
change. I was in partnership with Dick Brothers and 
Company, Bankers and Brokers, 30 Broad Street, from 
1907 to 1912. January 1, 1913, formed the firm of Kelly 
and Wallace, Brokers, 2 Wall Street. Have never pub- 
lished anything, nor held any public office. 

William H. Wallace, Jr. 

NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE 
NEW YORK CITY 



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I 



February 10, 191 3. 

HAVE never written up my biography, nor have 
I had my photograph taken. However, I will 
comply with the request to give you a very short ac- 
count of my career since leaving College. 

Home address, 33 West 69th Street. 

Business address, 516 Fifth Avenue. 

Present occupation, Manufacturing and Contracting 
business, Composition Floors. 

Single. 

I have practically no plans for the future but still 
have hopes. 

I am sorry not to be able to give a more interesting 
account but I am sure that facts are better than fancies. 

A. M. Warff. 

GENERAL KOMPOLITE CO. 

5l6 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK 



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April 16, 1913. 

TV/TY answers to the questions are as follows: 

^ A 1. Home address, 82 East 55th Street. Business 

address, 101 Park Avenue, N. Y. 

2. Architect. 

3. April 17, 1913. 

4. None. 

5. After leaving college I spent four years in Paris 
at the Ecole des Beaux Arts and one year (1907- 1908) 
in Denver, Col., practising architecture. Returned to 
New York 191 1 and am now associated with Kenneth M. 
Murchison. 

6. Nothing. 

7. Nothing. 

8. No. 

9. See answer No. 5. 

10. No. 

11. Expect to practise architecture in this city. 

Louis S. Weeks. 

ARCHITECT 

298 FIFTH AVENUE 

NEW YORK CITY 



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February 13, 1913. 

A/TY pedigree I will attempt to give as requested. 
^ -■'As I cannot improve upon your list of questions 
I will answer them and in the order given. 

(1) Home and business address? Bingham Canyon, 
Utah. 

(2) Present occupation ? Superintendent, above 
mining company. 

(3) Date of marriage? Sept, 11, 1905. 

(4) Children? None. 

(5) Occupation during last ten years? Most every- 
thing connected with mining, from mucker to super- 
intendent. 

(6) Politics? No. 

(7) Published anything? No. 

(8) Professional honors? No. 

(9) Traveled? Not outside of the United States and 
Mexico. 

(10) Established business? No 

(n) Plans for future? Continue working like h — 1. 

I meet 1903 men frequently in my travels about the 
western states or at the University Club in Salt Lake. 
In fact no less than eight members and specials of the 
class of '03 have been associated with this company at 
some time or other. They are S. T. Rigby, H. T. Bowles, 
George Knoblauch, C. T. Law, W. H. Hendrickson, 
J. F. Bauchelle, Earl Pembroke and myself. 

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I regret being unable to attend the dinner on March 
25th, but if all goes well I will be present at the Decennial 
celebration in June. 

F. W. Wichman. 

BINGHAM -NEW HAVEN COPPER 
AND GOLD MINING COMPANY 
BINGHAM CANON, UTAH 

superintendent's OFFICE 



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August 18, 1 91 3. 
TTERE are the answers to the eleven questions: 1. 
**■ -*- Home address, 509 West 121st Street, New York 
City; Business address, Griffin and Wynkoop, Archi- 
tects, 30 Church Street, New York City. 2. Architect. 
3. Married in 191 1. 4. No children. 5. In 1905 won 
the Paris Prize given by the Society of Beaux Arts Archi- 
tects. 1 905-1 908, studied in Paris and Rome. 6. No. 
7. No. 

John Wynkoop. 

griffin and wynkoop — architects 
thirty church street — new york 



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